Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!dann From: dann@wxlvax.UUCP (Dan Neiman) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Summer Reading Message-ID: <156@wxlvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Jul-83 18:37:07 EDT Article-I.D.: wxlvax.156 Posted: Mon Jul 18 18:37:07 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Jul-83 08:43:18 EDT Lines: 27 This news group has been awfully quiet as of late... Anyone in the mood for some lightweight summer reading? You could try something by Thorne Smith. He did Topper, The Stray Lamb, Turnabout, Rain in the Doorway, Did She Fall? and so on. Most of these are fantasies of some sort of another, following the basic pattern of staid incredibly normal businessman is jolted out of his conformist routine by some odd phenomena, usually with the aid of an attractive and uninhibited young lady. The books were written somewhere around 1935 (at a guess). Reasonably good fun. About the same era, P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves books make for a reasonably well-spent evening. These authors be taken in fairly small doses. Dann