Re: Summer reading for us

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I love Clancy and read almost everything he writes!  Also Alan Folsom,
Michael Crichton, and Dean Koontz!
Kevin Booe, Boise Public Library, Boise, Idaho

On Sat, 3 Jun 1995, Betty Dawn Hamilton wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Jun 1995, Mary Kendall wrote:
>
> > I find it interesting that Tom Clancy is not a favorite author among our
> > group.  Since he is a neighbor (I don't personally know him), I have tried
>
> Mary,
>
> I've read most of Clancy's work.  I also like Robert Ludlum.  I just like
> high tech spy stories.  The part of _Disclosure_ (which isn't a spy
> story, and I can't even remember the author!) that I liked
> the most was when they were exploring the virtual reality files.  I
> haven't seen the movie so I don't know how movie makers chose to handle
> that part of the book.  I have a feeling the sexual harrassment received
> much more attention than what the corporation was developing and getting
> ready to market.  The concept and the probability of such a device are
> interesting.
>
> Another book that is interesting from the internaut point of view is
> _Terminal Games_.  The plot is pretty predictable and it's not a
> *favorite* book, but it *is* interesting.
>
> I suppose my two all time favorites are _Gone with the Wind_ and _War and
> Peace_, in that order.  (Yes, I actually did enjoy _War and Peace_ after
> I got all of those names straightened out!)  I read both of those a long
> time ago, and I don't ever remember actually *missing* a book after I
> finished it as I did _Gone with the Wind_.
>
> I'm curious about the newly discovered Mitchell manuscript that I read
> about recently in the paper.
>
> Betty
> bhamilt@tenet.edu
>