tfilm (02/17/83)
RE: Books, anyone?
Is there any interest in book related discussions? As a library
director,I am interested in most types of literature, and it seems
to me that with the proliferation of news nets and with what I
perceive as something around a 20% valuable, 80% questionable
content ratio for all of the net items, there may be interest in a
news group 'net.books'.
To begin such a discussion, I would be quite interested in what
sort of people enjoyed the book 'Sophie's Choice', and why. I have,
of course, my own opinion of the author's style and the story
itself.
Another area that interests me is that occasionally librarians
blacklist a book on the grounds that it is 'truly' offensive to
some group in our society (policemen, prudes, minorities). One such
current book is Margot Zemach. I just purchased the book for my
children and would be interested if any one has any views on this
book in particular, or on librarian 'censorship' of this or a
similar sort.
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I had not intended to conduct a poll for the institution of
net.books, but it looks as if the foregoing comments I had
originally placed on net.misc had been so misconstrued.That being
the case, I will be collecting responses to the question: Should
there be a newsgroup 'net.books'? I personally believe that such a
group would be useful, therefore my response is obviously, yes.
MEL tfilm!ihuxp