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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