Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:57:42 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Half baked ideas...was Re: Has anyone read any good books lately?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> myeh at wap.org 3/25/2005 10:49:35 AM >>>
>On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:20:57 -0500
>  "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:
>> At 10:49 PM 3/24/05 -0500, Ernest Lilley wrote:
>>>I like a certain amount of the mundane in books. I'm sort
>>>of a fan of
>>>exposition too, handled right...as for food, my favorite
>>>parts of Nero Wolfe
>>>were the dining scenes.
>>>
>>>Ernest Lilley
>>
>> I'm the exact opposite...I like the strange and
>>wonderful in books (and
>> friends ;-) and if they leave out eating entirely, it's
>>fine with me.
>>
>    No, no you are all missing the point.  The book should
>be so engrossing that I am not interested in eating or
>drinking or anything else but the book.
>    I have a Nero Wolfe cookbook and a "Aubrey and
>Maturin" cookbook, but that comes after reading the
>stories.
>   Madeleine

The Robert Jordan "Wheel of Time Cookbook" where you're endlessly
mixing ingredients....

The "All You Zombies Cookbook" where it's all the same ingredients, but
they're changing all the time too.

mjw