Quote Originally Posted by Tobias Lutz View Post
I'll take on the other two...

I imagine Black Mountain/Balkan Sobranie doesn't do it for you for the same reason Joyce's Ulysses doesn't do it for me. It doesn't matter how good the blender(author) is, or how much people rave about something, there is a subversive side of my unconscious that refuses to go along with what all arrows point to as being a good thing.
D'oh, I really like Russ and respect his efforts. The jury that judged Black Mountain gave it top marks. I still don't know what's wrog with me. Maybe I have too many dirty pipes.

As for the reviews...I will never trust anything that comes from someone who assigns themselves a moniker including the word "stud"
I go with that. Thank you - I am down to 33% unexplained wrongness.