Re: Why didn't you tell me about this before?

In article <fssed3$ads$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Joe Bernstein  <joe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

	snip

[...] but I discovered that 
>it's possible to set a musical in a fantasyland, have pretty women
>in it, give it a happy ending, and I still hate it.
>
>(With books this kind of surprise is rarer - there are, after all,
>neither musicals nor images of pretty women in books - but hmmm, how 
>to make this post truly on-topic?  Darn, I'll have to get back to y'all 
>on that one...)

	Books that look like the reader should love but they don't?

John Clute's APPLESEED. Lovingly constructed but I'd rather be beaten
with barbed wire before rereading it (Note: I am not the Formula One 
boss and this is a figure of speech).



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