Checked out a chain in the mall. Waldenbooks, I think it was. Saw no Lewis in the children's Intermediate section (which included l'Engle, so I guess was the...
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Edith Louise Crowe
ecrowe@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Jul 11, 1999 4:39 pm
... Mary, I can assure you that one doesn't have to be a Christian to have a profound desire to escape anything having to do with Austin Powers. I'm the last...
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rspeer
rspeer@xxxx.xxxx
Jul 11, 1999 5:20 pm
I understand the disillusion with the culture in America today. However, I think that Austin Powers had aught to do with this decline, if you will, of today's...
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Joe Christopher
jchristopher@xxxxxxxx...
Jul 11, 1999 9:30 pm
Mary-- _The Monk_ (1797), by Matthew Gregory Lewis, is one of the marvellous books of the supernatural Gothic of its period, particularly if you can get a ...
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Stolzi@xxx.xxx
Jul 11, 1999 10:31 pm
To all Sayers fans and maybe other types as well -- A Brit friend wrote a very neat and nearly-comprehensible summary of the laws of cricket on a discussion...
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Stolzi@xxx.xxx
Jul 11, 1999 10:31 pm
In a message dated 7/11/99 12:29:58 PM Central Daylight Time, rspeer@... ... He is not a cause but a symptom. It's the crude, leering vulgarity which I ...
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rspeer
rspeer@xxxx.xxxx
Jul 11, 1999 11:06 pm
I concede that there is so much sexual inneundo in the Austin Powers movies. However, if that is our culture at its worst, then we are not bad. There is so...
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W.B. Honey
redsamael@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 12, 1999 6:23 pm
Having just seen the Austin Powers movie, I thought it had a sense of invention and delight in its own fun that was refreshing and genuinely innocent. Best...
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Edith Louise Crowe
ecrowe@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Jul 12, 1999 9:09 pm
Mary, I would view your sharing of this information as an important public service. As a fan of British mysteries both "Golden Age" anf newer, I often run into...
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Edith Louise Crowe
ecrowe@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Jul 12, 1999 9:27 pm
Twenty-something actors are not the ones I would have chosen for Frodo and Sam, but I remind you that halflings are often mistaken for human children....
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Donander Evre
ninzian@xxxxx.xxxx
Jul 13, 1999 12:27 am
... Can I reccommend A. G. Macdonell's ENGLAND, THEIR ENGLAND. It has the best literary cricket match of all in it. Nin Who is biting his tongue over the...
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Joan Marie Verba
verba001@xxxxxx.xx.xx...
Jul 13, 1999 3:40 pm
... RINGS IS GIVEN A TITANIC BUDGET After analyzing production cost projections, New Line Cinema has agreed to increase the budget for the film version of...
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Hal May
shield333@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 13, 1999 9:27 pm
WendellWag@... wrote: From: WendellWag@... In a message dated 7/9/99 12:59:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time, shield333@... writes: << Concerning...
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WendellWag@xxx.xxx
Jul 14, 1999 12:10 pm
In a message dated 7/13/99 5:29:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... it had to do ... the ... I've heard of people who think that Charles Williams's books flirt...
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Stolzi@...
Jul 14, 1999 2:12 pm
Say, Wendell, Monica didn't buy any CS Lewis titles, did she? ;) I have already reported the mall bookstore I found extremely light in the matter of Lewis....
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Joe Christopher
jchristopher@xxxxxxxx...
Jul 14, 1999 3:18 pm
I think Nin should list the things he/she finds deeply offensive about the Narnia series. The usual charges are racism and (not quite as strongly) sexism....
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Joan Marie Verba
verba001@xxxxxx.xx.xx...
Jul 15, 1999 3:25 pm
... RINGING UP A RECORD BUDGET? Raising new questions about how much the upcoming Lord of the Rings film trilogy will cost, the London Daily Telegraph reported...
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Stolzi@xxx.xxx
Jul 15, 1999 7:17 pm
Congratulations! YOU have been entered in the lottery to win a two week stay, free of charge, in beautiful Middle Earth! Your hosts will offer you their...
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Lisa Deutsch Harrigan
lisa@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 15, 1999 8:18 pm
Cute Mary. OK, Rivendell. Because it reminds me of a good con. You know, too much food & drink, storytelling and singing, and deep wonderful discussions far...
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Joan Marie Verba
verba001@xxxxxx.xx.xx...
Jul 16, 1999 1:56 am
... Rivendell. I'm not an "outdoors"; person. Joan ******************************************************************** Joan Marie Verba...
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Stolzi@xxx.xxx
Jul 16, 1999 3:45 am
In a message dated 7/15/99 3:26:45 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Thanks, Lisa. Others? I should have said, "you can win a chance in the Lottery..." The idea...
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d.bratman@xxxxx.xxx
Jul 16, 1999 4:02 am
Rivendell. More books, more music, better food. Is this going to be unanimous? Somebody who has the hots for Galadriel had better speak up! David Bratman...
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David Lenander
d-lena@xxxxxx.xx.xxx....
Jul 16, 1999 5:00 am
Well, I put "To live in Caras Galadon" (is that how it's spelled? I probably knew then) as my "Ambition"; for the high school year book. But I've never felt ...
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Diane Baker
dianejoy@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 16, 1999 8:26 am
Rivendell for me, too, for the reasons Lisa named. I definitely do not have the hots for Galadriel. Now, Celeborn, or Aragorn........
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Hal May
shield333@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 16, 1999 6:10 am
WendellWag@... wrote: From: WendellWag@... In a message dated 7/13/99 5:29:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... it had to do ... the ... I've heard of...
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WendellWag@xxx.xxx
Jul 16, 1999 8:50 am
In a message dated 7/16/99 2:10:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... would > see Williams books as flirting with occultism. . . The presence of that kind of book >...
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WendellWag@xxx.xxx
Jul 16, 1999 8:55 am
In a message dated 7/14/99 10:15:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Stolzi@... ... Can you imagine the cross-examination she would get if she had? "So, tell us,...
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Steve Schaper
sschaper@xxxx.xxxx
Jul 16, 1999 12:31 pm
... The Order of the Golden Dawn does tend to strike me as being occult, to the very limited extent that I have any knowledge of it. ... Hard to define...
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Stolzi@xxx.xxx
Jul 16, 1999 2:41 pm
In a message dated 7/16/99 3:56:05 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Miracles happen where Lewis is involved... look at Chuck Colson!...
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Stolzi@xxx.xxx
Jul 16, 1999 2:41 pm
It's here, folks! <A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/books/news/9907/14/worst.writing/">'Obscure bureaucrat' wins bad writing contest -- July 14, 1999 </A> AND if you...
