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From: barger@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Jorn &)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Great works (was Re: Encyclopedia Brit.)
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:44:49 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
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John Ewing (johne@or.credence.com) wrote:

: >Their great works set 				????         256

: I have a few questions about this set.  How much do they want for this?
: If you have a set of these, how do you rate them?  What is your experience?
: Are there any "great works" that have been left out?  If so, which ones?
: It looks like it would be worth while owning, but I'm not sure how much use
: I would make of it.

I have a feeling this was hashed to death recently, but I had a heavy
hand on the kill-key that week...

I got all-but-one of em out of a dumpster, on halloween a few years ago.
My favorites are the Great Ideas Angel->World, for their noble attempt
to categorize human wisdom thematically (an AI-like ambition!).

I find the classics themselves moldy and gray, poorly translated, and printed
in painful eyestrain-o-vision...

What's this about a new canon, with added author(esse)s?  Did Joyce get in?

===========================================================================
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   "And crazyheaded Jorn, the bulweh born?"   _Finnegans Wake_ 513.07
     (Ask me about the electronic Finnegans Wake reading project!)
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From: pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Ken Kesey's latest
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:47:05 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Bradley University

In <1992Sep14.165021.18880@morrow.stanford.edu> francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes:
>Chuck Smythe writes:
>	Cameron Laird writes:
>		Any early returns on Mr. Kesey's first novel in decades?
>	Last week's _NYT Book Review_ trashed it.
>Pity no-one thought to trash Mr Kesey himself some time ago. He is pond 
>scum.
>							Fido					
Those EVIL ACID HEADS!!!!


		Your indignation appears overwrought.  Perhaps you could
		use some valium?


Personally I found _One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_ a very good book,
and I really don't carea bout Mr. Kesey's lifestyle.
-- 
Pete Hartman		       Bradley University	pwh@bradley.bradley.edu
                        Love reads like a bad biography:
               All the names are changed to protect the innocent
From: ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Ray Bradbury and American Airlines
Date: 13 Sep 92 00:19:29 GMT
Organization: UC Davis Dept of Applied Science at LLNL

In article <1992Sep11.142431.7698@athena.mit.edu> kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan) writes:
<Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury has joined the 
<staff of the American Airlines' in-flight magazine,
<American Way, as a contributing editor.
<
<All right, so Ray has a new job but didn't we just have a long thread
<on Ray and the immortal Asimov that brought up the fact that Ray
<doesn't fly? I'm not suggesting that Ray is a hypocrite for working
<for American but what will the three articles be about? "Flying: it's
<good for you but not for me." Other suggestions for Ray?

Actually, it seems that Ray Bradbury is simply taking Isaac Asimov's
place.  :-)  Asimov wrote a column called "Change" for American Way for
many years.  So I guess the editors long ago agreed to publish work
by someone who is admittedly afraid to fly.

Ed
ed@wente.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
From: jyc@leo.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis)
Subject: Re: books to avoid
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:21:24 GMT


   If you follow only one thread this season, make it this bold yet
sensitive exploration of Books to Avoid.
From: amnell@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Marko Amnell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Bertrand Russell's Letters
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:58:50 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

Yes, the edition of Russell's letters was reviewed in the New York
Review, August 13.  I'm a logician studying type theory, so I know
a bit about Russell's work.  I read the review and thought it was
particularly well written, even inspiring at times (but this is probably
just me being sentimental...).  Anyway, I highly recommend it!

-- 
Marko Amnell
amnell@klaava.helsinki.fi
Graduate Student in Philosophy
From: marlon@milpa.EBay.Sun.COM (Marlon Pearson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Encyclopedia Brit.
Date: 8 Sep 1992 20:27:55 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Mt. View, Ca.
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: marlon@milpa.EBay.Sun.COM (Marlon Pearson)
NNTP-Posting-Host: milpa.ebay.sun.com

Since this is  arts.books I am not sure that this question belongs here
but I will throw it out anyway. 

This weekend Encyclopedia Brittainica (sp) was at the local Waldenbooks
giving a sells pitch. Here is the "limited time offer" they offered me.

                                                 Normal       LTO
Their 32 volume set plus 1992 annual update     3199        1734
Their great works set 				????         256
Their children s 20 volume set                   459           0
Plus up to 200 free reports from their list
                                                -----------------
                                                             1990.

It sounds like a pretty big discount but still, 2000 is a large
chunk of money. Any thoughts on this ? Do you think its a good
deal ?

Marlon 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,rec.humor,alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.sf.misc
From: wcstom@alfred.carleton.ca (Tom Hamill)
Subject: Re: Agnostics and Athiests
Followup-To: rec.arts.books,rec.humor,alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.sf.misc
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:19:24 GMT

In article mauax@warwick.ac.uk (Brazil) writes:
>In article <HC{100@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>IF THIS DOESN'T STOP, IM GOING TO START THE WORST CASCADE EVER.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>WHILE EATING THIS SLOP, I SEWED THE FIRST BROCADE BEAVER.
>>>>>>>>>>>>BILE FITTING RIG STOP, LIE SPEWED THIRST LIVER !!!!
>>>>>>>>>>>IF YOU MUST CONTRIBUTE, AT LEAST DELIVER...
>>>>>>>>>>WHO MAY I ATTRIBUTE TO THIS BEASTLY SLIVER?
>>>>>>>>>TO SPAY A LUTE IN A GREASY RIVER
>>>>>>>>DAMN CASCADERS THINK YOU'RE SO CLEVER
>>>>>>>I WILL NOT CASCADE; NOPE, NO, NEVER
>>>>>>WOULD YOU, COULD YOU, ON A TRAIN?
>>>>>WOULD YOU, COULD YOU, IN THE RAIN?
>>>>R2-D2 ON THE BRAIN?
>>>This cascade is damn insane!
>>And it's really getting lame!
>This lower case is going against the grain!
sOdRiEuXiTaLlAnDsTaRtOvErAgAiN.
From: liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz (Liam Greenwood)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re:  Books on Disc!
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:14:21 GMT+12
Distribution: world
Organization: It's Home, really...

In article <1992Sep10.133552.24757@spider.co.uk> ian@spider.co.uk (Ian Heavens) writes:
>It's much more difficult to understand screen-based text.  The advantage
    A matter of opinion. I find no difference.
--
 Liam Greenwood ------ liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz ------ Wanganui, N.Z.
                 Don't tell my Mother I'm a programmer,
               she thinks I'm a piano player in a brothel
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Subject: Re: Bernard Berenson
From: demers@mdcbbs.com (Diane DeMers)
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:22:04 PDT
Distribution: usa
Organization: M&E (Division of EDS), Cypress CA

In article <14SEP199214171164@portal.lasc.lockheed.com>, le01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel (x2025)) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep14.173140.24316@morrow.stanford.edu>, francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes...
|> 
|> 
|> >The real problem is that little men like Robert Hughes have to find little
|> >things to say -- it is in their nature.
|> 
|> These kinds of ad hominem statements are not calculated to really explain 
|> anything. And someone who writes as well as you do in these groups can 
|> surely do better than use the hackneyed diminutive "little".  It sounds 
|> petulant; the sort of thing a first-year college kid might use ...
 
On the contrary, I think 'little' fits quite well. I have no idea 
whether Francis (Fido?) meant it in the way that I interpret it, but 
in the context of classical Chinese Confucian philosophy, 'little man' 
is a perfect way to describe that kind of petty, mean (in the sense of
uncharitably critical) person.
|>
|> > Unless, of course, you
|> >get your jollies from this rather tiresome bashing business.
|> 
|> Isn't that precisely what most r.a.b.ids do get their jollies from 
|> (present company excluded, of course)??
 
Isn't that the purpose of r.a.b.? :^)
|>
|> 
|> Ron

diane
-- 
Diane DeMers - demers@mdcbbs.com - (714) 952-6571 EDS Unigraphics Div.
   snail-mail: 10824 Hope Street, Mail Stop 2S-137, Cypress, CA 90630
   ************ insert generic disclaimer here ***********
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From: sammy@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (Sammy)
Subject: Re: Looking for a book:  _I am Legend_, Richard Matheson
Organization: The Comp Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 02:34:40 GMT

I got my copy of _I am Legend_ from the Science Fiction Book Club.
I believe it is still available through them.

-- 
Sammy=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
The enemy of women...is not men, just as the enemy of blacks is not whites.
The enemy is "the tyranny of the dull mind." Carol S. Pearson, _The Hero Within_ 
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
Subject: Re: Book Search Request
Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:11:17 GMT

Ron Nadel writes:

	I read a book more than 25 years ago that I would like to read again,
	but I can't remember the title.  The plot concerns a gentle humble
	priest who has ongoing comments and conversations with Christ who 
	has come off the cross to speak with him.  There are some very funny
	moments in the book, and we learn ultimately that everything is 
	really taking place within the thoughts of the little priest.

The various *Don Camillo* books. You might find them now quite saccharic.

								Fido
Xref: sparky rec.arts.books:15896 misc.int-property:938
From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,misc.int-property
Subject: moral right and copyright
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:44:34 GMT
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

I now see thinks like

  The author asserts his [her] moral right to be acknowledged as the
  author ...

What does this mean?  What does it accomplish?  Should I be using it?
Is there some less tautological forms of words that has the same
effect (or course the author is the author -- but what about the
person sho actually wrote it)?  ("Author" is a technical term in
copyright law, I believe.)

I know this has been discussed before, but I'm about to write some
copyright notices, and I want to know what I should have them say.

-- jd
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 13:19:50 EDT
From: Reid Woolery <WTQ@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Help! - Sticky Stickers!

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this but since you all love
books I thought someone might know the answer.

I have a collectable paperback book on the cover of which a stupid dealer
placed a very stuborn adhesive sticker. Usually I can remove these things by
applying heat with a hairdryer but this one won't loosen. Any suggestions on
how to get the thing off without ruining the book?

Please send replys direct to me at the address below. Any advice will be
greatly appreciated.

******************************************************************************
* Reid S. Woolery                          The Pennsylvania State University *
* (Appl/Sys/Analyst) UTS                   WTQ@PSUVM.PSU.EDU                 *
******************************************************************************

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From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
Subject: Re: How I boggle myself
Keywords: Scott and Bulter
Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:09:55 GMT

Larry Hammer writes:

	Having just breezed through "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," 
	"Marmion," and "The Lady of the Lake," I've started reading 
	Walt Scott's Waverley novels.  Specifically, WAVERLY.  In my 
	usual tag-team reading fashion, this is concurent with EREWHON.  
	Scott plus Sam Bulter is an ...  interesting ... mix.

	Scott, incidentally, cannot write anywhere near as well as Jane 
	Austen, but he can write novels as well as she.

Scott had these hopes for his presentation of the native Scot:

	"not by a caricatured and exaggerated use of the national
	dialect, but by their habits, manners and feelings; so as
	in some way to emulate the admirable Irish portraits drawn
	by Miss Edgeworth".

Perhaps you should be looking at *The Absentee*.

							Fido
From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: ... on Miss Manners (cough)
Date: 10 Sep 92 18:53:46 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Sep10.162433.27724@athena.cs.uga.edu> heath@athena.cs.uga.edu (Terrance Heath) writes:
>
>I was wondering if anyone else out there is a reader of Miss Manners,
>or if there are any other etiquette buffs out there. I'd be intersted
>to here from you, if you're out there.

I think she's a riot.  I haven't read her books, but I read her here on the
net.  Clari.net runs her column; you probably know that, though.



-- 
Lauren Crawford  //  crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu

I believe we are on the irreversible trend toward more freedom and
democracy -- but that could change.   -- J. Danforth Quayle  
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
From: mike@maths.tcd.ie (Mike Rogers)
Subject: Re:  Books on Disc!
Organization: none
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:24:51 GMT

In article <l4xnm7b@lynx.unm.edu>, rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu (Roger Squires) wrote:
>	Hogwash.  Children curl up with their Nintendos all the
>	time nowadays.  Also, consider:  An increasingly large

	1)	Children's eyesight is a lot better than most Adults'.
	2)	Reading text demands greater facilities than playing Gameboy.

>	small print texts.  With a good paper white LCD display,
>	the user could choose any size font in any typeface she
>	desired, with zero eye strain.  There is no need to

	I've done that with CDI. It just seems hokey. The tech has a long way
to go. There's a market, but I just don't think there's a general long cycle
consumer market.
-- 
Mike Rogers,Box 6,Regent Hse,##EveryoneHasTheRightToFreedomOfOpinionAndExpressio
TCD,EIRE. <mike@maths.tcd.ie>##nThisRightIncludesFreedomToHoldOpinionsWithoutInt
###############################erferenceAndToSeekReceiveAndImpartInformationAndI
deasThroughAnyMediaAndRegardlessOfFrontiers...#10 UN Declaration of Human Rights
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From: jost@wilbur.coyote.trw.com (Patrick Jost)
Subject: Recommend a Good Search Service!
Reply-To: Patrick Jost <jost@wilbur.coyote.trw.com>
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:42:27 GMT


What search services have you used with good results?


Please email your recommendations...



Thanks,



Patrick


-- 
..suenos perdidos, dolor infinito, ya sin sentido, en el triste fluir, de los
llantos sumergidos, al silencio de un grito en el vacio... (J. L. Velasquez)

              Patrick Jost/jost@coyote.trw.com/(310) 812-2759
From: cruz@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Nancy Cruz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: The White Man's Burden of Proof
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:00:26 GMT
Organization: New York University Ultracomputer Research Lab

In article <9209062116.AA27492@cfdev1.shearson.com> mtaranto@shearson.com (Mark Taranto) writes:
>
>Professor McCarthy might like to know that "Insidious intent" was a
>literary allusion.  Someone might like to tell him what poem it is
>from.
>

Let us go then, you and I
when the evening is spread out across the sky
like a patient etherrized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
the muttering retreats
of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
and sawdust restaurants with oyster shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question...
Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'
Let us go and make our visit.


Ah, Eliot.....


-- 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Nancy Cruz - a.k.a. "Tensha, the Icewoman" |   New York University    |
|      cruz@lab.ultra.nyu.edu                |Ultracomputer Research lab|
+--------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: james joyce
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:07:57 GMT
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com

In article <1992Sep15.155417.18269@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>  
hicksm@hindmost.lpl.arizona.edu (Mike Hicks) writes:
> 
> 	Hello People!
> 
> 	I am a long time fan of Henry Miller, that's for sure, and
> 	this morning I thought I might enjoy working backwards 
> 	in time through his contemporaries.
> 
> 	In particular I'd like to see if I can find in the library
> 	a copy of James Joyce's "Lady Chatterly's Lover" (sp?) and
> 	I would enjoy to hear people's impressions of this book and
> 	others by the same author.
> 

I doubt you would find it in your library (unless you are in
a different universe, in which case you might).  As your (sp?)
signifies, your spelling is a bit off.  It's spelled
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, or maybe Ulysses.

--
Jim Mann            
Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com  
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From: ve3pak@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Alayne McGregor and Brett Delmage)
Subject: Re: Marriage as Hell: Charlotte Perkins Gilman on TV
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:28:36 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.180921.6092@grebyn.com> fi@grebyn.com (Fiona Webster) writes:
>I was reminded of another feminist film about oppression within
>marriage, one with imagery much more familiar to the baby-boomer
>generation: "Dancing in the Dark."  This movie, out on video and
>available at Blockbusters, is a no-shit-disturbing portrait of
>the classic 50's marriage with the woman's life entirely wrapped
>up in her husband's concerns.  "Dancing in the Dark" helps you
>realize (if you hadn't already) how much of that "happy wife" schtick
>presented in, for example, "The Dick Van Dyke Show," was pure
>brainwashing.  It's also an engaging, suspenseful horror flick.

And to bring in the obligatory rab content: _Dancing in the Dark_ is
by Joan Barfoot, a Canadian novelist (whom I met while I was a summer
student at the London Free Press, where she is on the desk). Very nice
person; the stories she writes are not "nice" at all. Sometimes she
reminds me of Shirley Jackson.

I'd recommend _Family News_ or her latest, _Plain Jane_ (which I'm reading
right now), as well as DitD.

Alayne McGregor
alayne@ve3pak.ocunix.on.ca
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Encyclopedia Brit.
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:54:57 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

In article <1992Sep9.184525.8464@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca>, marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Marcy Thompson) writes:
> But for true fun, there's nothing better than the first edition. On the
> bicentennial of the publication of the first edition, they issued a
> facsimile edition (complete with fake waterstains on the pages, which
> are an annoying affectation). I got one for my father and have enjoyed
> it so much that I'm always on the lookout for one for myself. For a real
> chuckle, read the entry about cats.
> 
> Marcy Thompson		

Is it the first edition that has one paragraph on the atom, and 40
pages on midwifery?

-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer  My opinions, all mine!
Alcohol prohibition didn't work; drug prohibition doesn't work; gun
prohibition won't work.
From: miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Naked Lunch
Date: 15 Sep 92 08:12:42 CDT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1992Sep15.011557.10093@csrd.uiuc.edu>, hsu@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (William Tsun-Yuk Hsu) writes:
> miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> 
>>In an age when the word "important" isn't very important, _Naked
>>Lunch_ I suppose counts as important.
> ...
>>Mine are like yours--though I didn't have the patience to read it all.
>>Even though the author lives here I don't know anyone who has actually
>>read his stuff.
> 
> You need to go out more :-)

I know; but I like to read a lot... ;-)

> Many in the younger generation of fiction writers claim Burroughs as a major
> influence. 

I know.

> But since this is an age where the word "important" isn't
> very important, 

The term is overused.

> I suppose none of these really count to you.
> Bill

What can I do; I'm 56 and we're mutually irrelevant.  They don't read
Robert Bridges; why should I read William Burroughs?

********************************** +.............................+
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*There is no privileged position.* :are my own and are not to be :
*	-God, Derrida, others    * : attributed to my employer   :
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From: hicksm@hindmost.lpl.arizona.edu (Mike Hicks)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: james joyce
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:54:17 GMT
Organization: Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson AZ.


	Hello People!

	I am a long time fan of Henry Miller, that's for sure, and
	this morning I thought I might enjoy working backwards 
	in time through his contemporaries.

	In particular I'd like to see if I can find in the library
	a copy of James Joyce's "Lady Chatterly's Lover" (sp?) and
	I would enjoy to hear people's impressions of this book and
	others by the same author.

	Thanks! G'bye
						-Michael Hicks
From: mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: books to avoid
Date: 9 Sep 92 12:39:16 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

In article <8SEP199212140448@zeus.tamu.edu> spb0457@zeus.tamu.edu (SubGenius) writes:
>A similar opening can be found in Penelope Ashe's _Naked Came the Stranger_,
>as ludicrous and lurid a novel as has been penned:
>
>	Screwed.

And probably any book with a title like that, ie. of the form
adjective,verb,noun. Naff or what!

Yes, the first sentence is usually a dead giveaway for whether a
book's any good. Mind you I've never seen anything quite so dreadful
as the above example (and the "starfuckers" one). And these people
get published????

The only awful example I can think of is mild by comparison:
"The day [a name I forget] dreaded dawned clear." It continues
in similar alliterative vein. It's title is Nile, but I don't
remember the author. 

Nigel
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From: wismith@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (William R. Smith)
Subject: Re: Marcia Muller's books
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 22:59:42 GMT

M.H. Nadel writes:
	
	This is not quite an accurate description of Sisters in Crime.  


	For example, even though over half of the mysteries published in
	the U.S. and Britain are by women, you'd never know that by
	reading reviews of mysteries.  (For example, the Bloody Sunday 
	column in the L.A. Times typically reviews 5 or 6 books and it
	is rare for more than one to be by a woman.  20-30% women authors
	seems to be typical in other review columns I've seen.)




This is contrary to the impression I got from an article in the Sunday
Magazine of the Chicago Tribune a couple of years ago.  I think they
mentioned Sara Paretski and quite a few other female mystery authors
who had female leads in their stories.  Woman writers with women dectives
is the fastest growing segment of mystery publication.  The article
stated that it was easier for a new woman author to get published than
a new male writer.



William Sburgfort Smith
Intel, SSD

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