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Title: Disappointing, but....
Review: I was disappointed by The Talmud and the Internet for two reasons. First, it was more a collection of essays on a common theme than an extended meditation, which is what I was expecting. As such, it was frequently redundant. Slight as it was, it could have been even more so. Second, it was very much more Talmud than Internet, which the author does in fact mention in his preface. But the connection between the Talmud and the Internet was not very well developed.Some of the problem may well be, of course, that my expectations were off. Leaving those aside, it was worth reading. The prose is thoughtful and graceful, and the tone very personal. Rosen's description of the Talmud as a sort of literary replacement for the Temple at Jerusalem was new to me. I was also interested in his comparison of the multi-generational, non-linear aspect of the Talmud to the idiosyncratic character of the Internet (and, as mentioned above, would have liked to see this better developed).
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