[mod.ber] net.books

ber@gummo.UUCP (ber) (01/26/84)

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

ber@gummo.UUCP (ber) (02/07/84)

Summary of net.books from Jan. 21 through Feb. 5, 1984:
	- prentiss riddle


Reviews and discussion:
	"I Ching" (In various editions.)
	"In a Different Voice" by Carol Gilligan.
		(Feminism, femininity and world-view.)
	"Lono" by Hunter S. Thompson.
		(An adventure story by the great gonzo journalist.)
	"Science: Good, Bad and Bogus" by Martin Gardner.
		(The battle rages on.)
	"The Pooh Perplex" by Frederick Crewe.
		(Less-than-serious lit crit.)
	"The Tao of Pooh"
		(Escaped from net.flame.)
	"The Women's Room" by Marilyn French.
		(Feminist novel.)
	"There He Goes Again: Ronald Reagan's Reign of Error" by Mark Green
		and Gail MacColl.
		(Ronnie's slips of the tongue and of the mind.)

Help wanted in finding:
	A good book on stocks
	Complete editions of George Bernard Shaw
	"The Star Trek Concordance"

Plus:
	"Time and Immortality" part 14 out of 14.
	A Stanislaw Lem quote.

ber@gummo.UUCP (02/24/84)

Digest of net.books from Feb. 8 to Feb 23, 1984 by Prentiss Riddle:


Either traffic was incredibly light this time around or net.books is
  suddenly getting clogged somewhere.

Miscellaneous reviews and discussion:
	"A Distant Mirror" by historian Barbara Tuchman
	"Duel" by Richard Matheson
	"Place of Dead Roads" by William Burroughs
	R.A. Lafferty published by Corroboree Press ("Golden Gate" and
		"Through Elegant Eyes")

Queries:
	Is the Quality Paperback Book Club worth it?
	Mickey Spillane's last word in mysteries
	Who is Dr. Seuss?

ber@gummo.UUCP (ber) (03/20/84)

Digest of net.books from Feb 23 to Mar 10, 1984 by Prentiss Riddle:

I now have some circumstantial evidence that not all net.books articles
  are making it through to ut-sally.  So what else is new?

Miscellaneous reviews and discussion:
	"A Distant Mirror" by historian Barbara Tuchman
	Borges as a reviewer
	Historical novels by Mary Renault
	Historical novels by Robert Graves:
		"Claudius the God"
		"Goodbye to All That"
		"I, Claudius"
		"King Jesus"
	John Varley's SF trilogy "Titan", "Wizard" and "Demon"
	The holographic cover on the new "National Geographic"
	"The Unix Operating System Book" by Banahan and Rutter

Queries:
	Books on Quebec City -- its history, etc.
	Books on SCCS
	Books on the polar coordinate system
	Speeches by Robert Badinter, French minister of justice,
		against capital punishment

ber@gummo.UUCP (04/06/84)

Digest of net.books from Mar 21 to Apr 4, 1984 by Prentiss Riddle:

Miscellaneous reviews and discussion:
	Computer and Information Sciences Book Club
	Federal budget info: "Statistical Atlas of the U.S."
	Libraries (New York Public Library lecture series and
	    administrative hassles in Boston)
	Paul Jennings on "Beatrix Potter Translated"
	Thomas Pynchon
	    "Gravity's Rainbow" and "V."
	    "Slow Learner", a new collection of old stories
	"Sandwich Exotica: The Sandwich Manual for Connoisseurs"
	    by L.P. DeGouy
	"The Earth in Decay: A History of British Geomorphology
	    1578 to 1878" by G.L. Davies
	"The Family Bed: An Age-Old Concept in Child Rearing" by
	    Tine Thevenin

Queries (and some answers):
	Books on "miking" a chorus
	Errata for "Principles of Compiler Design" by Aho & Ullman
	How to locate a copy of "Steal This Book"
	    (write to: Loopmanics Unltd., POBox 264, Mason, MI 48854)
	Information about the Amish of Pennsylvania
	Readable introduction to the history of medicine
	    ("The Century of the Surgeon")
	Speaker design books
	    ("High Performance Loudspeakers" by Martin Colloms)