Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 19:40:46 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What I can't read
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Luckily there are boatloads of stuff out there. My 10% and your 10% may =
have minimal overlap.

Me, I tried reading Bujold.  Even tried one of her award winning novels.

One word: Boring.

Nice person though.

mjw

>>> candymadigan at mindspring.com 03/23/02 08:06AM >>>
I'm sure you're not, apparently a LOT of people like it, but I don't.

At 09:43 PM 03/22/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>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