> -----Original Message-----
> From: camplate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 06:17 AM
> To: brin
> Subject: The Postman
>
>
> Does anyone have a summery of the Practice Effect when it was
> discussed last year? I saved all the e-mails, to be read
> after I finished the book, but I have not been able to get
> them into my new email system.
>
> In the same vein was The Postman ever discussed? I'm 90% done
> with the book. All I can say is WOW! It sucked me right in. A
> few things got silly in the middle, and I hope Brin can end
> the story in a believable way (i.e. some world god doesn't
> show up and Sets Everything Right, tm.) An event just
> happened in the last chapter I read, so I'm not too hopeful
> right now the book will end normally, maybe I'll be wrong.
>
> Does the movie go away from the book so much that it was bad,
> was it Costner's fault, or is the movie actually good, you
> just need to know what's going on?
I dunno. I've tried to recommend Brin to people, and they always say "Oh, you mean
the guy who wrote Dirtworld?"
-j-
