what a helpful intervention, gabe--maybe they could use your human/simian
sorting skills over in the middle east--glad my life's not in your hands,
though--c
on 4/29/02 11:40 PM, Gudding at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> [I sent this to New-Poetry but that list is uninterested in literature]:
>
> I am reading or have recently read the following items:
>
> _Volcanoes_, Alwyn Scarth.
> This is a refreshing look at the science of volcanoes. Many nice pictures
> and diagrams. My favorite sentence from this book is "Volcanoes are
> exciting." This is writing at its best: clear, succinct, and to the point.
> Very good book about volcanoes.
>
> _At Swim-Two-Birds_, Flann O'Brien.
> I have read this book several times. It is my favorite book.
>
> _The Third Policeman_, Flann O'Brien.
> Of those books that I have read only once, this is my favorite book of that
> class.
>
> _Present Past/Past Present: A Personal Memoir_, Eugène Ionseco. Translated
> by Helen R. Lane.
> A very sad book.
>
> _The Modern Ark: The Stories of Zoos, Past, Present, & Future_, Vicki Croke.
> I have learned from this book that some captive chimpanzees eat their shit.
>
> _The Perfect Storm_, Sebastian Unger.
> This nonfiction book is an account of the Halloween Gale that harmed
> several fishermen from Gloucester, MA. Of those nonfiction books about the
> sea that I have read only once, it ranks highly. It is on the level of
> Willard Bascomb's _Waves and Beaches: The Dynamics of the Ocean Surface_.
> or Raoul Graumont's _Handbook of Knots_.
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