From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What I can't read
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 22:49:23 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

My original point exactly. It's interesting to see what other people--with
whom you may agree on nearly everything--can't stand that you love, and vice
versa.

Erica
who thought it a pretty fine book, too

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Newton [mailto:bnewton at ashcomp.com]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:43 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What I can't read

I hope I'm not the only person here who reveres Mr. Bester and thinks that
The Stars My Destination is one of the finest works of fiction ever
produced...

Barry

At 06:27 PM 3/22/02, Candy said (remarkably!)
>I found Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination to be pathetic.  So
>pathetic that I had to memorize the author's name and the book's title in
>order to keep from, once again, picking it up and starting to read it.  I'd
>get about halfway into it and go, "Oh.  This is *that* book." and put it
>down again.

Barry L. Newton, Ashton Computing & Management Services
bnewton at ashcomp.com