🚀 go-pugleaf

Richard Karlquist (rkarlqu@scd.hp.com) wrote:

: Hey wait a minute.  Mr. Ho sold me a book I have been trying to
: get a copy of for 20 years (out of print since 1960).  He had a lot
: of other good books on his list that should be of great interest
: to readers of this group (maybe the technical competence of this group
: would rise if everyone bought a book from Mr. Ho.)  (How many posts a day
: are questions like "please give me pointers to books about <insert
: topic here> ? )   Mr. Ho promptly acknowledged my order and sent the
: book promptly after getting my check.  He went out of his way packaging
: the book to make it postal-worker proof so it arrived in mint condition.
: I look forward to Mr. Ho's latest list for more gems like the book mentioned above.

: Rick Karlquist
: rkarlqu@scd.hp.com

I'll second that!  While I was slightly annoyed at his insistance upon
4th-Class "Book Rate" shipment (No, no, Mr. Bill, anything but
that..), I think his selection was outstanding.  I picked up a copy of
Algorithms in Modula-3 by Sedgewick.  Not only is this book rare, but
it was about $50.00 at the local bookstore when it _was_ in print.
Mr. Ho's offerings are certainly not your average "How to Crash
Windows if You're a Dummy" genre that prevail in the "*.sale" groups.
As long as it doesn't get ridiculous, I'd like to keep seeing this
from time to time.

- Steve

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|Steven N. Hirsch			 "Anything worth doing is worth    |
|University of Vermont			  overdoing.." - Hunter S. Thompson|
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