On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:14:20 GMT, "Michael Stanford"
calmly ranted:

Hey JT can't be a bad guy, not if he's a Terry Prachett fan

Nor am I.


"J T" wrote in message
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Thu, Jan 13, 2005, 7:56pm (EST+5)
(Andy Dingley) says:
Why not ? The people who know whether a particular book is good or not
are those who've already read it.

OK, bad choice of words. You can "ask" what books, but final
decision rests with the person buying. That's why I usually only buy
books I've actually thumbed thru. Rare exceptions to this are books I
already know I will like - such as the Discworld series books. I'm

Precisely. I found Terry Pratchett totally unreadable while I fell
into Niven's novels and ended up reading every single ONE of his books
(20+) in the past year and a half and loving every second of it.


willing to ask for recommendations about books, but then will look the
book(s) up, in the library, or a bookstore, and only afer I have then
looked at the book, decide if I will buy it or not. And, having decided
that, I will probably buy it on-line thru one of the links I posted.

Right, at a third the price. I just ordered 3 more used books through
Amazon yesterday.


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