# Free Live Free *The SF-Lovers list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Jan 1987* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jeff Dalton *21 Jan 1987, 20:31* > My recomendation: Read the book if you can get it without paying > for it. Or if given to you, then read the first part of the book, > then skip directly to the last part -- the middle isn't really > necessary to the ending. To me, everything's worth reading (provided that you like Wolfe) *except* the end. No criticism of Bruce intended, I just happen to like different things. ---