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To: Solon who wrote (5235)	7/22/1998 12:52:00 PM
From: taxikid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12754

your other favorites? mein kampf ?<sp> helter skelter? the hothouse? unabomber diaries? see dick run ? Pol Pot's personal guide to influencing people? SOn of Sam's guide to seducing women? methinks u spent too much time reading your trip sheet and arguing with the dispatcher over forgotten calls. taxi

To: Solon who wrote (5235)	7/22/1998 9:04:00 PM
From: Druss	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12754

Solon--My copy of Rabelais is on loan so I had to guess at the spelling. My other favorite authors off the top of my head are: Shakespeare, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Melville, Twain, Whitman, Blake, and Joyce. This is leaving out the modern authors I like and a few of the classical I am just not thinking of right now. I mentioned Rabelais because he is the master of the verbose. He turns it into a virtue. He is not my favorite classical author but I still really enjoy reading him. As to my credentials, beats me, I read a great deal and have read most of the noted authors I am aware of, simply to see if I would like them (usually do). As to the last ten books I have read, mostly histories with three books on flyfishing. The histories were on the India Mutiny, Civil War, the English/Scottish Border region (about the reivers), "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer (given to me, about the recent disasters on Mt. Everest) and "Oriental Mythology" by Joesph Campbell. To be honest I am not dead sure of the last ten books I have read. I read some light stuff on my recent trip. I will generally read anything that gets near me. However I still can't picture just Flaming great authors here. I prefer to light into the live mediocre ones floating around. Druss