# alga-rithms *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 Feb 2000* > 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. --- ### Alice Turner *09 Feb 2000, 10:22* > From: Michael Andre-Driussi > Now alga, granted you don't like PEACE, nor FREE LIVE FREE, nor THERE ARE > DOORS, nor PANDORA, nor CASTLEVIEW. Correct. And you can toss in THE DEVIL IN A FOREST. > But for the purposes of our > calibrating your tastes, where does such a modern tale as "Forlesen" fall? > Do you dislike it as much? Or is it below the radar (i.e., completely > forgotten)? No, I quite liked that. But it is a fable, not a realistic contemporary story. > And how about "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories"? I get confused about those stories with the similar names. But if that is the one with the boy with the weird head, I liked it a lot. But it's hardly realistic. If it's the Tackman one, ditto. The hospital one, no. > "Beech Hill"? Below the radar. (But I can't remember titles.) > I mean, I can guess that you dislike "The Woman Who Loved the > Centaur Pholus." Correct. -alga ---