Celebrity advice

[Asun Friere]

Arthur <ajsiegel at optonline.net> wrote in message 
> 
> ""There are some books so bad, but so plausible and influential, that
> periodically trashing them in public is almost an obligation. The really
> classic stinkeroos of this kind, like Karl Marx's Das Kapital, exert a weird
> kind of seduction on otherwise intelligent people long after their factual
> basis has been completely exploded."""
> 
> I gotta go with with Eric on this.
> 
Wow! You've actually managed to read Marx' _Capital_?  What all three
volumes?  I'm impressed!  I'm certain no "otherwise intelligent
people" would "periodically [thrash]" a book they haven't read, would
they?