alga-rithms

Alice Turner · 09 Feb 2000, 10:22 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: "Alice Turner" <akt at attglobal.net>
Subject: (urth) alga-rithms
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 10:22:26
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> From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at sirius.com>

> Now alga, granted you don't like PEACE, nor FREE LIVE FREE, nor THERE ARE
> DOORS, nor PANDORA, nor CASTLEVIEW. =20

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 sto=
ry.

> And how about "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories"?=20

I get confused about those stories with the similar names. But if that is t=
he 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"?=20

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.

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