Imagine finding you here. I'm the friend of Vonda McIntyre's. Remember me.
buzz buzz,
nancy
At 11:40 AM 7/7/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Speaking of "who is on this list," Janice and Susan commented:
>
>>> I recently finished _A Door Into Ocean_, which was
>>> somewhat interesting, though the bad guys were cut out of cardboard, and
>>> the 3rd _Native Tongue_ book, which was patently absurd and very bad.
>>
>>I picked up that whole trilogy in a used bookstore, because they were
>>inexpensive and looked interesting (and I'd just handed in two very large
>>term papers and was treating myself), and I read through all three books
>>in one weekend, but by the time I got to the end of the trilogy, I was
>>reading just for the sake of finishing what I'd started. They started out
>>interestingly enough but just degenerated... and I found something vaguely
>>offensive in the portrayal of the inter-gender relations. The idea that
>>men and women just can't, literally and unequivocally and universally
>>-can't- understand each other.
>
>Well, I guess they worked for me because I am sometimes baffled by the fact
>that any two entities are able to communicate, let alone two entities fo
>different genders. And living with my husband and son is enough to give me
>many instances of complete conviction that they are indeed wired
>differently and occasionally incomprehensible.
>
>Comments from Susie?
>
>
>
>Maryelizabeth
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>
>
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