From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxp!tfilm Newsgroups: net.news.group Title: Books, Anyone? Article-I.D.: ihuxp.373 Posted: Thu Feb 17 10:54:18 1983 Received: Mon Feb 21 21:16:17 1983 Reply-To: tfilm@ihuxp.UUCP (M. E. Lindenmeyer) RE: Books, anyone? Is there any interest in book related discussions? As a library director,I am interested in most types of literature, and it seems to me that with the proliferation of news nets and with what I perceive as something around a 20% valuable, 80% questionable content ratio for all of the net items, there may be interest in a news group 'net.books'. To begin such a discussion, I would be quite interested in what sort of people enjoyed the book 'Sophie's Choice', and why. I have, of course, my own opinion of the author's style and the story itself. Another area that interests me is that occasionally librarians blacklist a book on the grounds that it is 'truly' offensive to some group in our society (policemen, prudes, minorities). One such current book is Margot Zemach. I just purchased the book for my children and would be interested if any one has any views on this book in particular, or on librarian 'censorship' of this or a similar sort. ---------------------------------- I had not intended to conduct a poll for the institution of net.books, but it looks as if the foregoing comments I had originally placed on net.misc had been so misconstrued.That being the case, I will be collecting responses to the question: Should there be a newsgroup 'net.books'? I personally believe that such a group would be useful, therefore my response is obviously, yes. MEL tfilm!ihuxp