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From: kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re:  Great last sentences
Date: 26 Jul 92 16:52:30 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <1992Jul24.155625.2819@newstand.syr.edu> mprisco@lynx.cat.syr.edu () writes:

>Here's a paraphrase of a modern mystery writer and now I can't
>remember the writer (Grafton, Julie Smith, Lia Matera????) but
>the last sentance is something like:
>"And I blew him away."

>Best ending to a mystery in a while...non of the stupid 
>confessing, etc.  Does it ring a bell with anyone?  Its
>most likely one of those I listed (ugh, I'm missing one..)

>Margot

	Sounds a lot like Mickey Spillane's _Kiss me deadly_.

--Keith

	
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From: saint@cats.ucsc.edu (Dan Bodenheimer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Great last sentences
Keywords: longest, great, sentences
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:18:47 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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I don't know if this is the greatest last sentence, but it could
be the longest, and it is also defines the Saint. 

	And he took down Teal's bowler from the rack, and 
	clapped it rakishly on the detective's head, and 
	pulled Teal's ear, and punched him in the stomach,
	and was gone; and an echo of Saintly laughter seemed
	still to hang in the little hall long after the clamour
	of the Hirondel had died away.

	--Angels of Doom by Leslie Charteris 1932

Inspector Teal was the Saint's foil, while the Hirondel was a car.
From: rafem@gvlf7-e.gvl.unisys.com (Ralph Marrone)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Got a copy of *Engine Summer* you'd part with?
Keywords: John Crowley
Date: 31 Jul 92 15:09:04 GMT
Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, Great Valley Labs, Paoli, Pa

In article <markmc.712473149@sierra.com> markmc@sierra.com (Mark McWiggins) writes:
>I went to hear a reading/Q&A session with John Crowley (*Little, Big*,
>*Aegypt*, etc.) last night.  He read an excerpt from his forthcoming
>work, the second volume of *Aegypt* (to be four, eventually).
>
>(An aside: I know 'trilogy', but what are the words for series of four
>and five?  'Quaternary?'  'Pentagon?' :-) )
>

I think the word for a four book series is "tetralogy."

>bought out of it and pressing it on people as I do).  But there was an
>even greater reaction among the crowd last night over the mention of
>*Engine Summer*, and the four copies available were gone by the time I
>got there.
>
>So: got a copy?  This worked for me once before when *Little, Big* was
>out of print, so I thought I'd give it a chance.
>

_Engine Summer_ is one of my top ten favorite books.  This slender
novel is wonderful.

I also enjoyed _AEGYPT_;  I didn't realize it was the beginning of a 
series.  However, it didn't have the same impact on me as _Engine
Summer_.

_Little Big_ is currently number 2 on my to-be-read queue.


Regards,

rafem
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From: pooder@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Don Fearn)
Subject: Re: help please, when did Isaac Asimov die?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:23:12 GMT
Reply-To: Pooder@vnet.ibm.com, but I can't receive e-mail, so forget it. 
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

In article <1992Jul22.191303.20390@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:

|> I would not say that he was an atheist. 
 
Perhaps *you* wouldn't, but *he* did in his long two-volume autobiography. 

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From: michael@paul.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,rec.humor,alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.sf.misc,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: help please, when did Isaac Asimov die?
Date: 26 Jul 92 19:42:03 GMT
	<Brun1F.I7o@world.std.com> <BrupK8.82@ecf.toronto.edu>
	<1992Jul25.164740.13967@pony.Ingres.COM>
Followup-To: rec.arts.books
Organization: Boston University
In-reply-to: rogerl@Ingres.COM's message of 25 Jul 92 16:47:40 GMT

In article <1992Jul25.164740.13967@pony.Ingres.COM> rogerl@Ingres.COM (Roger Leuthner) writes:

   In article <BrupK8.82@ecf.toronto.edu> ricegm@ecf.toronto.edu (George Matthew Rice) writes:
   >In article <Brun1F.I7o@world.std.com> lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund) writes:
=  >>>
=  >>	Gee, I didn't know Asimov was an engineer.
=  >
=  >I thought that he had a Ph.D. in biochemistry and he was tenured at 
=  >Boston U (or somewhere around there).
=  > Columbia University, NYC

Yeah, he was a prof. at Boston U., but it seemed mostly for show-
it wasn't like he taught or anything.
In any case, I though he got his degree at Columbia...

$.02,
chaplin.
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From: steve@fulcrum.oz.au (Steve Taylor)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,alt.books.reviews
Subject: Re: RAH
Date: 28 Jul 92 07:27:35 GMT
Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group

In <1992Jul25.233617.11433@slammer.UUCP> brad@slammer.UUCP (Brad Isley) writes:

>In article <1992Jul24.130651@IASTATE.EDU> mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie Coffin) writes:
>>I read Farnham's Freehold a long time ago, and liked it.  The plot is nicely
>>worked out, tight, and interesting.  For some reason, it was never very
>>popular.  

>I read it, too.  I have read almost all of RAH's work.  It was one of the
>few of his earlier works that I did NOT like.  Why?  It was depressing.
>Sure, the mechanics were right, and the morals he was trying to espouse
>were ones that I agreed with.  I just got depressed reading it.  It might
>be a common opinion - explaining it's lack of popularity.

It was also one of the first Heinlein books I didn't like. In my case it was
because he started (for I think the first time) to show two traits I hated in
his later books - firstly, authoritarianism, backed up by long boring
arguments about how someone has to be captain, and a plot built to prove him
right. I've just finished rereading Space Cadet for a bit of nostalgia, and
I've found myself thinking - not for the first time - how much more emotionally
mature Heinleins juvenile books are than his "adult" novels.

The second trait is wish fulfillment. I know it's generally a mistake to 
equate the author of a book with their characters, but in the particular
case of Heinlein, I think it's correct. This was one of the earlier appearances
of the incredibly competent ornery old bastard with a heart of gold, respected
by all, who I feel Heinlein completely identified with. I much prefer the
Heinlein characters who aren't arrogant know it alls - for instance Mannie in
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the hero of The Puppet Masters (can't think of
his name), and even Oscar in Glory Road who, although fearsomly competent,
was occasionally stupid or callous, just like real humans. That's why Heinleins
late career "Job" was such a pleasant surprise for me - here was a hero who had
a lot of growing up to do.

I've read all of Heinlein (except for The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, which
I just couldn't stomach) and I love his work, but reading most of his later
books makes me want to pick him up and shake him.

Another reason "Farnhams Freehold" got some bad press was that it was accused
by some of being racist. As far as I can remember the book, I don't agree,
but I mention it just for the record.


							Steve
							steve@fulcrum.oz.au
From: dlb@fanny.wash.inmet.com (David Barton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Great last sentences
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:22:55 GMT
Organization: Intermetrics Inc., Washington Division, USA

In article <l+bm!6.troach@netcom.com> troach@netcom.com (Tom Roach)
writes:

   I would like to know other reader's opinions on the most memorable
   last sentences in books, short stories, or whatever they've read.

"He loved Big Brother."

George Orwell, 1984. (As best my poor memory gives it).

					Dave Barton
					dlb@hudson.wash.inmet.com
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: _A Constitutional History of the United States_
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:15:21 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

In article <l7e596INN80c@news.bbn.com>, rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman) writes:
> In article <11441@optilink.UUCP>, cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
# |# Unfortunately, I run into too many college
# |# students like the gal who recently expressed amazement at discovering 
# |# the U.S. had a Civil War in the last century. 
# 
# OK, I'll bite.  What Civil War have we had since 1892?
# 
# Ron Newman		rnewman@bbn.com

The 19th century -- as distinguished from the 20th century.

If this was an attempt at humor that didn't work, then never mind.


-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer  My opinions, all mine!
"Well, maybe the Holocaust was right *for that culture*." -- a moral relativist
with whom I work.
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From: tmaddox@netcom.com (Tom Maddox)
Subject: Re: Or Shakespeare either (was: I don't like Dickens...so sue me!
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 08:57:06 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

	SubGenius is not a name, any more than cocker spaniel or tree frog.

	Mark Taranto is quite right to demand that this person of uncertain
taste show up at least with a proper pseudonym--Steely Maris, Stoly Dallas,
or whatever would be fine, and would presumably appease the Fido.

	Or MaoII, which I recommend for sentimental reasons.


-- 
				Tom Maddox
		    	    tmaddox@netcom.com
		   "I swear I never heard the first shot"
                Wm. Gibson, "Agrippa:  a book of the dead"
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From: gb661@thor.albany.edu (BROADWELL GEORGE AARON)
Subject: Re: Mao II by Don DeLillo
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 19:17:53 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.171134.21350@athena.mit.edu> kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan) writes:
>Mike Rogers writes:
>If you think that's bad, you should try White Noise. great Book, pity nothing
>happens.
>>
>Fiona  Webster writes:
>I was so infatuated with _White_Noise_ when I  first read it, I gained
>weight and had my hair frizzed, so that I'd more closely resemble the
>character Babette.  It was my Babette phase.  :-)
>
>							--Fiona
>
>	Babette is a great character. I especially like the way her
>husband talked to her - but that is what you do, you are Babette, and
>this is what Babette does - or words to that effect.
>
>	And the great joke of the novel, the one that places _White
>Noise_ into the ranks of great campus novels: The  Department of
>Hitler Studies. Great!
>

*White Noise* was the only English book I had to read while I spent
a week recovering from food poisoning in rural Mexico.  It made me so 
depressed I cut my vacation short and flew home.

It is a good book, but my advice is to read it only when you are safe
and comfortable, and have friends around to bring you back to reality
after reading it.


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From: mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie Coffin)
Subject: Re: RAH
Reply-To: mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie Coffin)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 03:10:46 GMT

In article <0095E2AA.A3911600@Msu.oscs.montana.edu>, alisg@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
writes:
> I'll take your word for it that _Farnham's Freehold_ wasn't popular, but
since
> an earlier post indicated that it went through 21 printings in 22 years, I
take
> it that popularity is a relative thing.
> 
> I read a lot of the stuff that Heinlein wrote for younger readers, both when
I
> was a kid and later, after I started working as a high school librarian. Some
> of it held up very well - anyone else like _Double Star_? - but others, such
as
> _Starship Troopers_, were well-nigh unreadable.
> 
> That leads me to my question: Have any of you gone back and re-read books
from
> any genre that you loved/liked as a child, up through, say, high school? Did
> the book hold up well?  Was it awful? Why do you think either reaction
> happened? I took a children's lit course this summer, and had to re-read
> _Charlotte's Web_. I'm really sorry I did, since I had liked it as a kid. I
> really disliked it as an adult. On the other hand, just about all the Ray
> Bradbury that I liked once, I still like. _Rascal_(a children's story about a
> pet raccoon) was so good that I think I enjoyed it as much if not more as an
> adult.
> 
> Anyway, if this is not approriate fare for the net, I'd be glad to hear from
> anyone via e-mail. Cheers!
> 
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Popular is a relative thing.  When you talk to Heinlein fans, many of whom
weren't alive when his books first came out, they seldom mention Farnham's
Freehold.  

I think some of his books for younger readers hold up extremely well.  Others
(Rocketship Galileo comes to mind) are really dreadful.  I guess _Star Beast_
is one of my favorites.  

Marie Coffin
 
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From: simon@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Simon Clippingdale)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,rec.humor,talk.religion.misc,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: Agnostics and Athiests
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:13:32 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England

In article <srutt.711951273@beagle> srutt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (DNA Kaifeng) writes:
>
> I've long been interested in the definition of atheist and agnostic. I've 
> heard a few, but I prefer this one: an atheist is one who BELIEVES that 
> God does NOT exist and an agnostic is one who is simply skeptical about
> the existence of God. So under this definition, only an agnostic can be
> a true scientist (of thought, not necessarily profession).

Well, it's a matter of degree. I have no evidence either way that the universe
was or wasn't created by a 19-dimensional divine blue banana (although those
damn bananaians will insist that of course the evidence is all around us, the
very fabric of the universe itself).

Do I reserve judgement and pronounce myself an agnostic (I don't believe that
a 19-D DBB created the universe), or do I stick my neck out and pronouce myself
an abananaist (I believe that a 19-D DBB didn't create the universe)?

How small does the estimated probability of a theory being true have to get
before one comes right out and believes it's wrong? If some evidence turns
up, nothing prevents me from revising my belief accordingly, so I don't
accept your last statement. One can always change one's mind; one is not
required to reserve judgement in order to be scientific, merely to modify
it as appropriate.

>                           -steve

Cheers

Simon
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From: lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund)
Subject: Re: help please, when did Isaac Asimov die?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:58:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.224918.11927@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church) writes:
>In article <Brt901.FIy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul22.132513.29828@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath) writes:
>>>
>>>But do atheists _go_ anywhere when they die?
>>
>>Asimov himself wrote that he'd prefer nothingness, as he doesn't consider the
>>standard image of 'heaven' to be appropriate for any rational man...
>
>The problem with Asimov was the he felt (feels, is he dead?) that reality would
>actually shape itself into what he thought it should be. If you disagree read
>the intro to "Before the Golden Years". 
>
	Gee, I didn't know Asimov was an engineer.

ObUL request:
	This is vaguely related to Asimov since he was a skeptic.

	I was recently reading _The Faith Healers_ by Randi and realized I
haven't heard any faith healer UL's.  There is no lack of religious UL's
(The Vanishing Hitchhiker) nor sickness UL's (Craig) but no faith healing
UL's.
	So,  has anyone one had a FOAF healed by a faith healer?  Or has  
anyone had a FOAF die after throwing away their insulin after visting
a faith healer.
	This would seem a natural field for UL's but maybe I travel in
the wrong circles?
	Famous people you have met that have been healed by faith
healers qualifies for extra points.

Larry 	"The Oral Roberts of the computer field: I put my hand on the 
	terminal and CAST OUT THESE GERBILS" Headlund

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From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Subject: Re: Re-reading (was RAH)
Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:12:04 GMT

In article <LEE.92Jul28164702@meercat.wang.com>, lee@wang.com (Lee Story)
>writes:
>> 
>> Well, Scott has a point.  I first read _The_Brothers_Karamazov_ and
>> _Ulysses_ as a teenager, and going back to them I can see that they
>> are simply awful.  The same for _Charlotte's_Web_, _Stuart_Little_,
>> _The_Trumpet_of_the_Swan_, and (while we're at it)
>> _Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland_, _The_Phantom_Tollbooth_,
>> _A_Wrinkle_in_Time_, and the tales of H.C.A. and those lousy Grimm
>> brothers.  Ray Bradbury and Piers Anthony have held up much better.
>> 
>> The $21K/year English teachers tell me this is because people in the
>> computer business have inferior discrimination and generally bad taste,
>> but I think they're just jealous of our six-figure salaries!

In article <1992Jul29.122746@IASTATE.EDU> mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie
Coffin) writes:

>You'd reject _Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland_ in favor of Piers Anthony?
>The English teachers may have a point.

Either that, or Lee is having a joke. I think Lee means for this to be
understood as a parody.


--Mike




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From: twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Robertson Davies
Date: 28 Jul 92 22:44:45 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <154beqINN8h9@agate.berkeley.edu> dkodmur@ocf.berkeley.edu 
(Daniel Kodmur) writes:
> I was very happy to see Davies mentioned in a recent post. Though
> I had not heard of him a year ago, now I am an addict. I try constantly
> to turn other people on to his work, but all I get are blank and
> uncomprehending stares.  Is it because he is Canadian, and most
> Americans are woefully ignorant of our northern neighbors? 

Canada?  You mean that little strip of land that runs along the 
northern border of the United States?  Don't they raise wheat there, 
or sled dogs or something?  

They have writers? 

(Actually we only feign ignorance of Canada to plague the easily-
exasperated Canadians and feed their inferiority complex.  We study 
the details of the Treaty of Ryswick in grammar school...  memorize 
the works of Leonard Cohen...  debate over Parti Quebecois is fierce 
in the student unions of our land. 

And we know *all* about Pierre Trudeau, thanks to Margaret.) 

Maybe it's the way you're trying to turn people on -- did you check 
to see if they were plugged in? 

--Barbara 
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From: mprisco@lynx.cat.syr.edu ()
Subject: Re:  Great last sentences
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 15:56:25 EDT

James Joyce-The Dead.

Here's a paraphrase of a modern mystery writer and now I can't
remember the writer (Grafton, Julie Smith, Lia Matera????) but
the last sentance is something like:
"And I blew him away."

Best ending to a mystery in a while...non of the stupid 
confessing, etc.  Does it ring a bell with anyone?  Its
most likely one of those I listed (ugh, I'm missing one..)

Margot

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From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
Subject: Re: _Mao_II_ by Don DeLillo
Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
	<1992Jul23.000956.15970@grebyn.com>
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:22:04

Yes,  but can he earn enough that way to pay $75 an hour for counseling?
--
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*
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From: emzx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Mao II by Don DeLillo
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:28:37 EDT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Cornell University

Just finished Don DeLillo's "Mao II" - and I must say I'm sort of disappointed.
 This is the first DeLillo I read, and although he is a good writer, he's very
slow and painstaking, describing, circumscribing, never really getting to the
point.

This is a good question, though, I think: what exactly is the POINT of Mao II? 
If anybody has any good things to tell me, please post them/e-mail them. 
Thanks.

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From: kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: Looking for good refernces on Faerie
Keywords: Tuatha de Dannan, tithe to Hell, Seely and Unseely Courts
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:38:37 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.040208.6193@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, manley@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (HELD HOSTAGE -- YEAR ONE) writes:

|> By the way, reading _The_Faerie_Queene_ has given me a headache the likes of
|> which I haven't felt since reading Chaucer.
 
 Hmm. I didn't find Spenser's language nearly as challenging as Chaucer's. 
It's almost English. (-: It's somewhere between Chaucer and Shakespeare,
probably closer to the latter.