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> At 1:50 AM -0500 23/8/09, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
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> Sticking
>> with SF, you might try Samuel Delany, if you've not read him (especially
>> *Stars
>> in my Pocket like Grains of Sand
>>
>
> No. don't. Tedious, tendentious, book. Reading it is like trying to swim in
> quicksand. I imagine it being used as part of the interrogation process at
> Guantonamo Bay. If you were sentenced to 10 years jail in maximum security,
> with nothing to read but that book or the health warnings on a cigarette
> pack, choose the cigarette pack.
>
>
I gather Bill feels strongly on this point.
j