Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!ogcvax!omsvax!icalqa!hplabs!hao!seismo!rochester!mark From: mark@rochester.UUCP Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Summer reads Message-ID: <2325@rocheste.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 00:40:47 EDT Article-I.D.: rocheste.2325 Posted: Wed Jul 27 00:40:47 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jul-83 12:07:43 EDT Lines: 24 I've just finished devouring "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols. It's a great summer read. I found it a combination of amusing stories, bittersweet ironies and splendid characterizations. It's a perfect summer book - no hard thinking required! I'm also working on "The Art of Eating" by M.F.K. Fisher. If you don't mind getting hungry while you read, it's a most amusing book. Oyster fans MUST read "Consider the Oyster". I've also read "The Puzzle Palace" (Bramford (sp?)) - an expose' (that's a grave accent) on the NSA. A bit hyperbolic in places, but overall, fairly entertaining (for certain types, very frightening). Finally, I read "The Chilly Scenes of Winter" by Anne Beattie. Very strange - it gave me the willies. Her characters are real enough to be believed and yet bizarre enough to frighten you. The ending surprised me. Anyone out there care to reccommend a particular Joyce Carol Oates to me? And why do I find Henry Miller so boring? Turnin' those pages in Rochester, New York... Mark.