Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:06:52 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Read?   . . . was Re: Re: Re: Re: St. Johns...John Wright
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

>twhite8 at cox.net 04/15/04 10:33AM
>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Elspeth Kovar" <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
>To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:51 AM
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Re: St. Johns...John Wright
>
>[...]
>>
>> I'll be honest: I don't read book reviews very often since whenever I =
do,
>I
>> want to get more books.  My budget can't stand for it, neither the =
buying
>> of books, nor additional bookshelves, nor the larger apartment to put
>them
>> in.
>
>To say nothing of the time required to actually *read* them.   (The best
>thing about my current job is that I can read on the job and in the past
>not-quite-two years I've read more books than I did in the previous 15
>years, averaging 1/4 to 1/2 a book a day....)

It has been suggested - somewhat tongue-in-cheek - that a new Hugo novel =
category be created: for the 100,000+ word bug crushers.  To be called =
Best Tome.

Recently reread WAY STATION by Clifford Simak.  Amazing what he did in =
about 50,000 words or so. Nowadays he'd probably have to write the WAY =
STATION Trilogy, to be co-authored with . . . . well, I'll leave that to =
your imagination.

Anyone on this list who hasn't read it, should go find a copy (used =
bookstore, library, friend, whatever) and do so.  Time well spent.

mjw