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- From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
- Subject: Non-fiction (was Re: _Dog Soldiers_ by R. Stone, a wild ride!)
- Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:27:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.182709.5488@julian.uwo.ca>
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- In article <BzL9xt.6Gt@wsrcc.com>, alison@wsrcc.com (Alison Chaiken) writes:
- >
- >By the way, does anyone on this group ever read NON-fiction? I read
- >non-fiction about 50% of the time, but I would guess that I am in the
- >minority here.
-
- I try to pick up at least one nonfiction book on something
- I know nothing about every foraging trip to the local library. This
- has sometimes paid off in interesting books (I ransacked the
- primatology section after encountering 'Chimpanzee Politics') and
- less often resulted in becoming aware of knowledge I didn't particularly
- value (A book on retirement behavior of dancers comes to mind).
-
- James Nicoll
-