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To: Long Cut
I'm seeing a lot of what I call "Popcorn Books" listed here. If you want to read books BOTH deep and interesting, then join the Freeper Reading Club. Great LITERATURE that will make you think. Unfortunately too many books have empty intellectual calories. I tried to avoid those books in the Freeper Reading Club assignments.
97 posted on 04/04/2004 5:02:06 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Saddam Hussein was only 537 Florida votes away from still being in power)
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To: PJ-Comix
Hey, I hope we didn't step on anyone's toes over your way, PJ. I didn't mean to, but if I did, I apologize.

Anyways, it seems that "popcorn books" are the ones most here are discussing right now. They're the ones we're all likeliest to have in common, after all.

99 posted on 04/04/2004 5:04:38 PM PDT by Long Cut (Hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have)
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To: PJ-Comix
I'm seeing a lot of what I call "Popcorn Books" listed here.

Bite yo' tongue, boy!

Trollope is not "popcorn." Neither is Donn Byrne, although not well known he is a fairly deep read. Dorothy Sayers' mystery stories stand well as serious novels (especially The Nine Tailors which as a bonus provides ample information on the arcane British art of change-ringing.) Georgette Heyer appears on casual examination to be popcorn, but she is making game of you.

(I realize your condemnation was not universal but general - but I couldn't resist.)

129 posted on 04/04/2004 6:37:45 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of Venery (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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