Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gummo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!harpo!gummo!ber From: ber@gummo.UUCP (ber) Newsgroups: mod.ber Subject: net.books Message-ID: <948@gummo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Jan-84 21:26:16 EST Article-I.D.: gummo.948 Posted: Wed Jan 25 21:26:16 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 31-Jan-84 11:34:13 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany Lines: 42 Approved: ber@gummo.UUCP Digest of net.books from Jan. 5 through Jan. 20, 1984 by prentiss riddle A rousing discussion of such Stephen King thrillers as: "Carrie" "Firestarter" "The Cycle of the Werewolf" "Christine" "Night Shift" "The Dark Tower" "Dead Zone" "Pet Sematary" "The Shining" Greek and Roman classics (and related topics) including: Aeschylus (dramatist and author of "Agamemnon") Catullus (bawdy Roman poet) Dante (as translated by John Ciardi) Gibbons ("Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", guaranteed better than "Dynasty") Herodotus (historian with a stack-oriented style (?)) Sappho (as translated by Mary Bernard) Nominations for favorite books on computer science. Authors include: Bell, Mudge and McNamara Knuth Brooks Lampson, Paul and Siegert Dijkstra Myers Gries Sieworek, Bell and Newell Holt Wulf, levin and Harbison Requests for: A fast-food cookbook (why?!) Books explaining the "I Ching" The name of an old b/w movie about Orpheus and Eurydice Opinions of "The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction" Odds and ends: Clitoridectomy (spilling over from net.women.only, the Goddess alone knows why) A Jane Austen quote Steve Aldrich's bibliography on Asian philosophies and religions "Relatively Norma" by Anna Livia (a "wimmin's novel" in which every man is named John) Textual discrepancies in an opera by Giancarlo Menotti "Time and Immortality" (part 13) "Science: Good, Bad and Bogus" (Martin Gardner vs. the ESP kooks) "The Neck of the Giraffe" by Francis Hitching