# Future reading group *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 19 Aug 1997* > 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. --- ### Patri10629 *19 Aug 1997, 09:42* In a message dated 8/19/97 3:40:56 AM, you wrote: << But what if, instead of starting new groups devoted to Simmons, C. Smith, etc., we became a kind of reading forum (if that doesn't sound too bourgeois)? We're a self-selected group, we're obviously working pretty well together, why don't we just throw it open for a while to a variety of literary topics? The people who think they're not interested in Smith or Simmons could either lurk for a while or get and read the books and pitch in. A single book could be considered. It seems to me, for instance, that most Wolfeans would get a thrill from A.S. Byatt's Possession and Peter Hoeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow, puzzle books with a strong sense of genre, but published in the mainstream. -alga->> Sounds cool to me. Patrick --- ### Kieran Cleary *19 Aug 1997, 16:06 · follows Patri10629* Sounds good to me too. Wouldn't mind exhuming a little more Crowley. lasrach Kieran Cleary North West Labs Finisklin Industrial Estate, Sligo Tel: +353 71 69441 Fax: +353 71 69451 email: kierannwn at tinet.ie ---