RE: virus: Fw: Virus Books

From: Jonathan Davis (jonathan.davis@lineone.net)
Date: Thu Apr 08 2004 - 04:12:01 MDT

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    I can vouch for Helprin. His "Memoir from an Ant-Proof case" is superb.

    Regards

    Jonathan

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    From: "David McFadzean" <david@lucifer.com>
    To: "virus" <virus@lucifer.com>
    Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 8:27 PM
    Subject: virus: Fw: Virus Books

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    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Hows" <howhow84@hotmail.com>
    > To: <david@lucifer.com>
    > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 6:37 AM
    > Subject: Virus Books
    >
    >
    > David,
    >
    > The books that infected me and changed me forever, as well as many people
    I know, were those by Daniel Quinn. He has written a
    > series of four books that shake the foundations of many who read them. In
    some of them he specifically speaks of memes and Dawkins
    > and Darwin. The books are Ishmael, Story of B, My Ishmael, and Beyond
    Civilization. I think they belong on your page as much as
    > anything on there.
    >

    Have you ever tried reading Mark Helprin's work? He is an amazingly powerful
    writer. I doubt he would shake any foundations. After all there is only ONE
    Isaac Asimov, *Grin* but he is a very passionate and moving author. A
    soldier of the great war and a winters tale are probably his best and most
    well known books. A solider of the great war is about (duh) the great war.
    Epic tale, love, death, all the classic stuff. A winters tale is more in the
    fantastic realm. It is hard to describe his work and if you go off of what
    I've said it probably sounds far less attractive than they really are. I
    highly recommend them. The interesting thing about him is that he also has
    written some political speeches. This worries me. I am not going to judge an
    author by their politics, however, when you get someone that has the mastery
    over the English language that Mark Helprin possesses it makes for a v.
    dangerous weapon. 

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