From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxp!tfilm Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Books, anyone? Article-I.D.: ihuxp.360 Posted: Fri Feb 11 15:59:20 1983 Received: Sat Feb 12 07:10:41 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 'Jake and Honeybell go to Heaven' by Margo 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.