Hi, This is an introduction to "Reading Matters," a list to discuss books, essays, fiction, non-fiction -- without a preference for recent books. Actually, if...
Timothy Virkkala
virkkala@...
Mar 13, 2000 5:56 pm
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Were all writers to "go on strike" for one year -- or longer -- it would not affect my reading habits much. Sure, the newspaper would vanish from sight. But...
Timothy
timk@...
Mar 13, 2000 7:08 pm
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Hi, all This is the first time I’ve ever participated in a discussion group organized through eGroups.com, so the format is a little new to me. I’m not ...
Scott Reid
too_many_cats@...
Mar 14, 2000 3:44 am
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... Right now there are just six of us, including me! Please feel free, each of you, to introduce yourselves even if you don't have anything to say about a ...
Timothy Virkkala
virkkala@...
Mar 14, 2000 6:02 am
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Hi everyody. I'm Paul Tumey. I'm 37 and live in Seattle, Washington, where my wife and I run a small consulting company, specializing in providing electronic...
Paul Tumey
pstumey@...
Mar 14, 2000 3:40 pm
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Timothy asked about whether "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is not excessively long. I suppose it is a bit wordy, but not half as bad as "Moby Dick" or any randomly...
Scott Reid
too_many_cats@...
Mar 14, 2000 9:59 pm
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Good observations, Scott. I agree... Uncle Tom's Cabana is not that long. The longest book I can recall reading was an unabridged version of "Don Quixote" in...
Paul Tumey
pstumey@...
Mar 14, 2000 11:10 pm
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For those of you interested... I contributed something to the current issue of the libertarian 'zine "The Free Radical." I defended the book "Feminist...
Timothy Virkkala
virkkala@...
Mar 15, 2000 3:22 am
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... What do you have against Edward Said? ... I strongly disagree to this extent: I *cringed* in mortal indignation when I heard John's slop at Diana's...
Larry G. Smith
emrys@...
Mar 15, 2000 6:00 am
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... Stark, ... I've read nine of these. Anyone with a bigger percentage? (Considering all the writers out there, nine out of 21 is a strikingly high...
Timothy Virkkala
virkkala@...
Mar 15, 2000 8:54 am
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... Strong impressions make the famous phrase beginning "de gustibus" less palatable. I know. In music, I always wonder how anyone can like the first movement...
Timothy Virkkala
virkkala@...
Mar 15, 2000 8:54 am
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... What's the translation? I'm curious, since I feel I should read it. Incidentally, I may not have read "Don Quixote," but I have read "Amadis of Gaul." This...
Timothy Virkkala
virkkala@...
Mar 15, 2000 8:54 am
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It is a commonplace to praise a book as "changing my life." I wonder how many people say this anymore? In truth, even most fundamentalist Christians I know...
Timothy Virkkala
virkkala@...
Mar 17, 2000 8:51 pm
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In a message dated 3/17/00 12:54:47 PM Pacific Standard Time, virkkala@... writes: << Anyone else care to 'fess up to any books that "changed" your...
BMDoherty@...
Mar 17, 2000 9:22 pm
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Hi, I'm a 'story' person with a question: Is it the book that changed your life or a particular story contained in the book? I find stories in books and ...
Alphoretta Fish
aika@...
Mar 17, 2000 11:02 pm
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Dear Tim et al: Without quite taking you up yet on “books that changed my life” (the title of the autobiography of Agnes Townhill, the omnivorous bookworm ...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Mar 17, 2000 11:04 pm
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... life ... reading-matters-unsubscribe@eGroups.com...
Alphoretta Fish
aika@...
Mar 17, 2000 11:07 pm
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... Request for clarification: When you say 'story', I suspect you include not only short stories within compilations and anthologies, but also themes or ...
Larry G. Smith
emrys@...
Mar 18, 2000 2:30 am
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... There are quite a few stories in, say, the "Alexandria Quartet." It is a melange of stories. And what affected me was the general upshot of all those ...
Timothy Virkkala
virkkala@...
Mar 18, 2000 6:48 am
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... I have had few reading experiences as vivid and entrancing as my first reading of the opening pages of Durrell's "Justine" (the first in the series). I...
Timothy Virkkala
virkkala@...
Mar 18, 2000 6:48 am
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Okay everybody, I've something really cool to share with you. It's the best collaborative filter in the world. Better yet, it's the best reading recommender in...
Paul Tumey
pstumey@...
Mar 18, 2000 7:48 am
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And leave us not forget Larry Durrell's brother, Gerald. I know Gerry's books are not nearly as literary as Larry's, but actually, his wonderful first novel,...
Paul Tumey
pstumey@...
Mar 18, 2000 7:59 am
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... I read _Labyrinth_ quite a few years ago and thought well of it. Michael...
Larry G. Smith
emrys@...
Mar 18, 2000 8:58 pm
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I suspect we are living in a golden age of literature, but that the age prefers bronze. I've a number of "first novels" on my bookshelves, novels that I pick...
Timothy Virkkala
virkkala@...
Mar 19, 2000 2:51 am
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First Tim tells us that we are we are obsessed, even tyrannized, by new books. We focus on the current at the expense of gems that have earned a veneer of...
Jon Kalb
Kalb@...
Mar 19, 2000 9:01 am
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I finally provoked Mr. Jon Kalb to join in! (I'm happy.) ... True. Professor Paulson might have made a mark -- like the Michael Douglas character in the book...
Timothy Virkkala
virkkala@...
Mar 19, 2000 10:37 pm
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... Are you aware of the Vance Integral Edition? (http://vanceintegral.com) It's a fannish volunteer effort to clean up Jack's complete works, undoing...
Anton Sherwood
bronto@...
Mar 20, 2000 4:42 am
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Dear et al: Durrell and the Alexandria Quartet. Paul's comment on Gerald. Last year PBS ran a documentary featuring John Cleese and a lot of Lemurs. Quite...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Mar 20, 2000 9:28 pm
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Dear et al, *The Dark Labyrinth*, too. Sensational book. Great fun. Written originally under a psued. For money, as an "entertainment." Differs from the others...
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