From: "lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: reading likes and dislikes
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:06:10 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----Original Message Follows----
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: reading likes and dislikes
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:50:34 -0500

At 12:49 PM 03/26/2002 -0500, you wrote:

 >----Original Message Follows----
 >From: Cathy Green <dalek_cag at yahoo.com>
 >
 >much as Candy though.  I kind of feel the same way
 >about Arthur C. Clarke.  Love the short fiction, but
 >while I didn't actively dislike Rama or Childhood's
 >End, I don't consider them masterpeices that I would
 >encourage eveyone I know to read.
 >
 >Actually, I rather enjoyed the Rama books - the rather aloof stance of the
 >narrator made them very relaxing to read.  The one author I have a bad
time
 >with is Asimov - fascinating ideas, but I challenge anybody to find a real
 >live breathing personn in him any where.

True, but I really enjoy his ideas.  And his public persona was fun.  I
only met him once, so I have no idea what he was really like.

Candy

Alexis asks to be included:

The true fan is not defined by reading lists, but by playing with ideas
instead of taking them as gospel.

Which, I must agree, IS the centerpoint of all SF.

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