Re: Authors Who Should Retire

David Goldfarb wrote:
> In article <p4sdt3tmu6cnamqur2386ucf83lqqvo2th@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Bill Snyder  <bsnyder@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:18:09 GMT, "Mike  Schilling"
>> <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> If you like that sort of thing, I strongly recommend _Bridge in the
>>> Menagerie_ and its sequels, by Victor Mollo.  They're collections
>>> of stories about various bridge hands played by the members of a
>>> club, each of whom resembles some animal: the greedy Hideous Hog,
>>> the timid  Rueful Rabbit, the pugnacious Colin the Corgi, etc.
>>
>> Eh?  I don't remember any animal analog for Papa the Greek.
>
> Or Karapet Djoulikyan.  But they are the exceptions.
>
> (And Mollo's books are *wonderful*.  Philip and Robert King did a
> sequel called _The Hog in the 21st Century_, but they didn't really
> succeed in capturing the spirit.)

I assumed that no one could replace Mollo (didn't even try to find it at a

bookstore) but thanks for the corroboration.

Another wonderful book I only recently found is S. J. Simon's _Cut for 
Partner_, a sequel to _Why You Lost at Bridge_.  It recounts three rubbers

[1] played by The Unlucky Expert, Futile Willie, Mrs. Guggenheim, and Mr. 
Smug.

1. Of about 12 hands each, as many of the contracts are utter disasters.