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From: vince@cadence.com (Vince Gibboni)
Subject: Re: Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 00:19:45 GMT

yms@carp.cis.ufl.edu (Yuh-Ming Shyy) writes:
> Hi, I just read an article from NewsWeek, which introduced 
> the book "Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives" by Alan Bullock. 
> I was wondering if there is anyone who has also heard about 
> this book. Because the NewsWeek article does not give any 
> criticism about this book, I am especially interested to 
> know any comment or book review about this book. Thanks. 
>

    It was reviewed in either this week's _New York Times Book Review_
    or in last weeks _Economist_, for some reason I can't remember
    which. The reviewer seemed mildly enthusiastic implying that
    it was a good idea and a reasonably good treatment, but he seemed
    to think that it was not all it could have been. Overall, though,
    he definitely seemed to think it was worth reading. 
    


--
                                                        vince@gda.cadence.com
    And in the battle on the streets 
    You fight computers and receipts
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From: bf455@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bonita Kale)
Subject: Re: ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 14:05:26 GMT




In a previous article, kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) says:
> 
> Freeways seem to be entirely a West Coast phenomenon. I've never heard 
>anything in the Northeast called a freeway, not even I-91 (which _is_ 
>free). Out here we have Thruways, Turnpikes and Highways, though I can 
>never tell how they decide which is which. I prefer to stick to the 
>railroads myself.
>------------------------------------------------------------------

They're freeways in Cleveland.  Not the Turnpike, which costs, but all the
others. 

Bonita Kale
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From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Subject: Re: Not penalized for travelling
Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1992 14:34:56 GMT

In article <1992Mar29.042743.28710@leland.Stanford.EDU> francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes:

>My favorites are 
>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dame Freya Stark, born just about 200 years 
>apart.

Book titles, please?


--Mike




-- 
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mnemonic@eff.org | qu'on a perdus."
(617) 864-0665   | 
EFF, Cambridge   |          --Marcel Proust
From: riff@coos.dartmouth.edu (Christopher P. Riff)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: ``The Double Clue'' (Hercule Poirot mystery)
Date: 5 Apr 92 20:19:13 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

saarinen@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sirpa Saarinen) writes:

>ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair) writes:

>>  This was shown on MYSTERY last week.  The plot seemed rather flimsy,
>>without the twists and turns I expect from Agatha Christie.  I wanted
>>to compare the tv version with the book version, but was unable to
>>locate the story.  Can anybody supply a reference?

>This week's mystery (The wasp's nest) was in the book "Hercule Poirot's
>early cases" (or something like that). I saw in it also some other 
>of the mysteries that are now shown on PBS. I did not check for The Double
>Clue. However, considering the set-up of Poirot & Hastings, the TV-series
>must be all based on the early short stories of P &H, since Hastings 
>appears not to have been yet in South America. Look also in "The labors
>of Hercules" since that also has short stories.

>Sirpa Saarinen
>saarinen@csrd.uiuc.edu 

Double Clue is also in "Poirot's Early Cases" and in the book "Double 
Sin".

There have been some stories done on Mystery in which Hastings was not
a part of the original short story, so it isn't necessarily true that
all the Mysterys are from early stories.  Also, Miss Lemon and Hastings
were not together in any of Agatha Christie's original stories.

Chris Riff
riff@dartmouth.edu


D
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were never in the
From: matt@physics.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: read any good books lately?
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:31:15
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
Reply-To: matt@physics.berkeley.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: gummitch@techbook.com's message of 7 Apr 92 17:42:56 GMT

Well, I just finished reading one of Susan Dunlap's mystery novels:
_Karma_.  It was reasonably good: both the crime, and the solution to
it, were very believable.  (Besides, I think it's a good idea to
support your local murders instead of always importing them from New
York or London.)

I've heard Dunlap compared to Sara Paretsky; unless _Karma_ is very
atypical, I don't understand that comparison at all.  Just about the
only similarity I can think of, in fact, is that both of them write
about female detectives.
--
Matthew Austern              I dreamt I was being followed by a roving band of
(510) 644-2618               of young Republicans, all wearing the same suit,
matt@physics.berkeley.edu    taunting me and shouting, "Politically correct
austern@theorm.lbl.gov       multiculturist scum!"... They were going to make
austern@lbl.bitnet	     me kiss Jesse Helms's picture when I woke up.
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From: dwhitney@hamp.hampshire.edu
Subject: re: read any good books lately
Organization: Hampshire College
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 20:33:57 GMT

-- I've been reading this group since I'm new to NEWS and just found it
among all the others.  A book I can recommend highly for a well written
mystery is Peter Watson's LANDSCAPE OF LIES.  An interesting twist for
Watson whose writing up to now has been on real art rather than fiction.

Deb Whitney
From: wagner@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Q about _Gravity's_Rainbow_
Date: 12 Apr 92 18:51:29 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.053507.5758@math.ucla.edu>, dstein@rhea.math.ucla.edu (David Stein) writes:
> In article <1992Apr9.174800.19856@infonode.ingr.com>,
> palmerc@palmerc@abulafia.b21.ingr.com (Christopher M. Palmer) writes:
> |> In article <73066@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu
> (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
> 
> |> I don't have a lot of respect for non-representational art *if* I
> |> don't know that the artist is capable of representational art.
> 
>    Please send your SAT verbal score so I can evaluate your statement.
> 
>                                                            Thank you - David
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I'm not a native speaker of English, so I'm not sure what I wrote.
> Flames will be ignored unless you post them in perfect Czech.
> ================================ - David (the metamathician) - ===

Pane Steine,

myslim ze jste udelali chybu.  Ten clovek kterou tu blbost napsal uz
v minulich clanku dokazal ze jemnosti Anglictini nerozumi, a ze vubec
nerozumi jemnosti moderni noveli.  Vase otazka je (v matematickem smyslu
slova) trivialni.  Doufam ze me prominete mou pologramotnost v Cestine,
uz tu ziju dlouho a mnoho jiste jsem zapomel.

							-Lukas
						(SAT verbal 98 %)
From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Novelist seeks 1645-1660 England info
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:34:58 GMT
Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie

bobdev@hprpcd.rose.hp.com (Bob Devereaux) wrote:
> I'm contemplating a novel set in 17th century England, specifically
> during the Cromwellian decade or a portion thereof.  I'd appreciate
> any leads as to good non-fictional accounts of that time and/or
> convincing novels set in that same period.

From a posting I made a short while ago in response to a different question:

- Aporia Press, 308 Camberwell New Road, London SE5 0RW, is a publisher
  specializing in reprints of seventeenth century English revolutionary
  tracts; they do their best to reproduce the original layout and
  typographic style using modern fonts.  For example "Abiezer Coppe:
  Selected Writings", ISBN 0 948518 25 1, 1987.  They've produced a volume
  of selections from Gerrard Winstanley since then (also Stewart Home's
  "Assaults against Culture", a history of recent revolutionary art
  movements).  Penguin published a larger selection from Winstanley under
  the title "The Law of Freedom and other writings" (ed. Christopher Hill,
  1973) and let it go out of print.  (Penguin also published William
  Godwin's "Enquiry into Political Justice", and let *that* go out of
  print, too).  Two other books on 17th-century revolutionaries by A.L.
  Morton: "Freedom in Arms: an anthology of Leveller writings", 1974, and
  "The World of the Ranters", both from Lawrence and Wishart.

Also (more conventionally Marxist): Christopher Hill's "The World Turned
Upside Down" and his book on Milton.
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From: soren@bu-geo.bu.edu (Soren Ryherd)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Freya Stark Bibliography
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:54:59 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boston University

There is also a six-volume (I think it is six) collection of her
letters.  I have gone through the first two volumes and have found them
fascinating. 


-- 
-Soren Ryherd			soren@bu-geo.bu.edu
 Boston University Center for Remote Sensing
 "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things." - Dan Quayle
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From: mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Subject: Re: Lit., Etc., Triv.  [was: ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE]
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 12:22:43 GMT

In article <kuiuqaINN67b@news.bbn.com> ncramer@labs-n.bbn.com (Nichael Cramer) writes:
>bf455@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bonita Kale) writes:
>>Which reminds me of a question I had regarding British usage.  C.S. Lewis
>>(d. 1963, so this was a while back) ...

>Pop quiz:

>Name (at least) two other (famous) people who died on the same day.

John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley.

You see, a friend of mine collects and creates conspiracy theories as
a hobby, and one of the more fun ones centers around the Kennedy
assassination as a diversion to distract the world from the removal of
two of the "voices crying out in the wilderness" against the less
benign aspects of modernity.  He doesn't take it particularly
seriously and no more do I, but he's managed to fix the three deaths
together in my mind.

Mike

P.S. So, do I win a prize for posting the answer six or seven minutes
after the question was posed?

-- 
Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS	"Never let your sense of morality prevent
mss2@midway.uchicago.edu	 you from doing what's right!"
mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu	 --Mayor Salvor Hardin of Terminus
mss2@usite-next.uchicago.edu     Isaac Asimov, _Foundation_
From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Surveying readers of the Advocate (Was: Re: Wanted: Readers)
Date: 24 Mar 92 21:25:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: eff.1992Mar24.212533.17788
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Originator: mnemonic@eff.org

In article <10080@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:

>Do you believe that human rights exist, independent of the culture?
>If so, you aren't a moral relativist, and therefore aren't a liberal.

Clayton, you should be ashamed of yourself for making up definitions of
"liberal" the way do.

Where is your source material for the definition of someone who believes
in human rights as "not a liberal"?

I'm a liberal, and I believe in human rights.


--Mike




-- 
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mnemonic@eff.org | qu'on a perdus."
(617) 864-0665   | 
EFF, Cambridge   |          --Marcel Proust
Xref: sparky rec.arts.books:8011 soc.history:3617 soc.culture.jewish:8022
From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Subject: Re: Isaac Asimov Dead ...
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 05:54:13 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

cs201139@umbc5.umbc.edu (cs201139):
>I am awarethat either his wife or daughter (or perhaps
>both?) is also an author...Maybe they will pick up where he left off 

His wife is J.O. Jeppson.  I'd rather she concentrated on her own work.
It's not taking anything away from his earlier works to prefer to see
another book like Jeppson's "The Last Immortal" than another "Sequel 
to Foundation".

>Does anyone know if he was in poor health before this or was it just a sudden
>thing?

Both.

-----
Dani Zweig
dani@netcom.com

Roses red and violets blew
  and all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew -- Edmund Spenser




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From: kasprj@jacob.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: read any good books lately?
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge
Distribution: rec
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 03:09:08 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.225452.29417@cs.yale.edu>, loosemore-sandra@CS.YALE.EDU (Sandra Loosemore) writes:
|> This newsgroup has seemed kind of slow lately.  Is everybody too busy
|> reading books to post here any more?  :-)
 
 Books? What? Oh yeah, so that's what this group is about. We do forget 
sometimes.

|>  What have you all been reading?  
 
 Mostly SF, but I talk about that in another group. I did just finish up
Thomas Disch's _The M.D._, a gripping book by an incredibly talented author
who doesn't seem to get the recognition he deserves in either the mainstream
or SF circles. 
 
 _The M.D._ actually ties in quite nicely to the recent "Why do people read
horror?" thread. The story takes a typical suburban kid, with all the faults
and failings that anyone can have as an adolescent, and puts incredible power
in his hands. And we get to see what happens as the old adage "Power corrupts,
and absolute power corrupts absolutely" is proven true. Disch doesn't pull 
any punches in this story, and as the corrupted child becomes an absolutely 
corrupted adult, we see the grim fruits of his labors in all their unsavory 
detail. 
 
 I think that part of the appeal this sort of thing holds for me is the sense
of shock - I can see what's coming and my mind thinks, "No, he can't do _that_,
can he?" And of course he does. That feeling that there are lines which 
people just don't cross in the real world, and the reaction one gets from 
seeing someone cross them without flinching. I guess it's my curiosity which
is really attracted to things like this... I want to see the very fringes of
human behavior, and since I'll probably never get to peek into the mind of a 
Jack the Ripper or a Jeff Dahmer, reading about it is the next best thing. 
 
 On a totally unrelated thread (except that it deals with books): I'm also
slowly but surely marching through the pages of Clausewitz's _On War_ (an 
abridged translation). I wanted to read it mostly because of my interest in
the origins of the First World War, and Clausewitz's influence on Europe's 
generals from the time of the book's publication until that war. It's not 
easy reading, but the insights are fascinating. I'd like to talk more about 
it but I think it'd require more time, another thread, and possibly a different
newsgroup (alt.war obviously comes to mind). 
 
 Finally, the next book on my reading list is Bruce Chatwin's _The Songlines_,
which I'd never have heard about had it not been for this newsgroup. It's great
to have something like this to reccomend good books to people like me who like
to read but aren't very "literarily aware".
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From: kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re:Hist/disp on hol/Laura
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:37:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr09.163750.49761
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Originator: kji@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU

Roger(I can't remember your name; I think that was it), my original
post dealt with literature that grossly underestimates the number of
jews killed by the Nazis.  I even had a legitimate reponse to it.

The post you refer to had nothing to do with you, so stay out of it.

Anyway, I couldn't possibly argue with anyone who uses such contrived 90s
terms as "netiquette".  What a loser.

If you have anything else to say to me, send me email, and I'll
promptly ignore it.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thursday, 16 Apr 1992 10:28:30 EDT
From: <DAB16@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: European historical novel?

In Florence, try George Eliot's _Romola_, that is, if you're the kind
of person that likes George Eliot.  I imagine she could probably set off
the kind of debate that the Austen/Bronte feud awhile back did.  The book
is set in late 15th century Florence, opening on the day of Lorenzo di
Medici's death, and closing with the trial, etc. (avoiding `spoilers', if
such exist for historical fiction) of Savonarola.  She really uses this
as background to tell the story of the title character, caught among
various tensions: love and fear for her aging father, a scholar and
humanist contemptuous of the new morality Savonarola promises; for her
brother, who, once the father's brightest hope, has succumbed to the
spell of moral reform; and for Tito Melema, an ingenuous young Greek who
literally lands in the middle of it, but...(this would be spoilers).
Of course, the book is about finding some kind of moral base amid all
the ideological and political no-solutions that are for sale, as most
of Eliot's books are.
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From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Subject: Re: Scientists fiction or plays
Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1992 22:20:57 GMT

In article <ballard.8@panther.adelphi.edu> ballard@panther.adelphi.edu (Terry Ballard) writes:
>
>    I'm surprised that nobody mentioned a wonderful book from last year 
>called The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers.  It is concerned with a 
>scientist in the 50's who was on the verge of a Nobel-winning discovery when 
>he suddenly dropped out of the game.  It is easily the best new fiction that 
>I have read in years.  

I second the recommendation of this book.


--Mike



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(617) 864-0665   | 
EFF, Cambridge   |          --Marcel Proust
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From: mcgregoa@cognos.uucp (Alayne McGregor)
Subject: Re: read any good books outside museums lately?
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA
Distribution: rec
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:58:07 GMT

In article <1417@heurikon.heurikon.com> gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor) writes:
>Sadly, Johnathan Carroll doesn't seem able to conjure up more than the
>most cartoonish ciphers for women [two muses and an ex-wife made of
>cardboard and decoratively painted], which is a bit of a disappointment
>after "Sleeping in Flames". Still, his latest, "Outside The Dog Museum"
>is a cracking good skewed read.

I picked this book up at the library and applied the "page 117" test
(open in the middle, read a page or so). I came across a story which
featured a character with my first name (no last name) from the city
I grew up in.

Now, my first name is rare, and the combination of that with
Winnipeg, Canada is even rarer. A very strange coincidence ...

(The book itself is bizarre, but good.)

Alayne McGregor
alayne@ve3pak.ocunix.on.ca
mcgregoa#cognos.uucp@ccs.carleton.ca
From: bf455@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bonita Kale)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE
Date: 17 Apr 92 14:09:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Apr17.140946.7502
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)




In a previous article, francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) says:
 no one has referred to my much more bookish second
>posting on C S Lewis. 



The subject line changed.  It's now "C.S.  Lewis (was ENGLISH AS SHE IS
SPOKE)".   Wouldn't want you to miss anything.  

Bonita Kale
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From: repnomar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Janet M. Lafler)
Subject: Re: Children's book name wanted
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 23:19:22 GMT

>In article <rtfbiINNfnv@agate.berkeley.edu>, shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff) writes:
>> Does anyone recognize the following book:
>> It involves a dike that's protecting the land and there are trees holding
>> the dike together.  Birds come and peck at the tree roots, putting holes
>> in the dike and endangering everyone.  It's like a Dr. Seuss book, but I've
>> checked the Dr. Seuss books and it doesn't seem to be one of them.

Yes, it's a Dr. Seuss book.  It's called _The King's Stilts_.

/Janet

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From: jf41+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan R. Ferro)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Asimov's mystery fiction
Date: 11 Apr 92 19:02:10 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi) writes:
>Is anybody else a fan of Asimov's mystery fiction?

Yup.  I hold the opinion that his mysteries were of much better quality
than his SF, the difference growing wider after _Foundation's Edge_
(barf).  The robot trilogy (_The Caves of Steel_, etc.) and the short
story collection _Asimov's Mysteries_ are second only to _Murder at the
ABA_, which I understand was his favorite of his own works.

If you're going to make a list of these, please post it or send me a copy.

--
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From: grs@infonode.ingr.com (Gary Smith)
Subject: Re: read any good books lately?
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Distribution: rec
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:16:23 GMT


I have two books of stories that I've been nibbling on by my
bedside, one is your basic collection of stories that was
assembled by someone with an odd sense (sorry, I forget who) the
other is a collection of Garcia-Marquez stuff that I'd not read
entitled: "Innocent Erendira and Other Stories". It has some
typical, tastey stuff in it and some very odd stories as well. A
nice short collection of representative material by this author
that would serve as a good starting point (rather than trying to
digest "100 Years of Solitude" the first time out, like I did all
those years ago).

The last "book" that I read (fiction) was Kundera's "Life is
Elsewhere" which I also enjoyed (more than "The Book of Laughter
and Forgetting", about the same as "The Unbearable Lightness of
Being"). 

With all of the glowing traffic on Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow"
on this newsgroup, I may try that one again. The first time I
tried it, I got so bogged down that I couldn't keep going and
although I tried it again, it still didn't work (for me). Nor was
I able to get into "Naked Lunch" (although I >did< skim most of
that; drug-driven raving that it was), which I suppose could be
stylistically lumped into a category similar to _GR_ (if one
wants to stylistically lump things...). This isn't to say that
_GR_ and _NL_ are both jazz-jive drug ravings, only that they
don't flow in any sort of linear fashion.

Gary Smith
grs@gsmith.b17d.ingr.com