I did not care for Wolfe's Bonfire, and never finished reading it. I have read and re-read _The Right Stuff_ many times. It is a moving story about modern heroes in the developing US space program. None of that ever-depressing big-society stuff that so baffles me.
I really like heroes. Last night I was reading _The Odyssey_, one of my favorites. Also keep nearby on my shelf classics like _Last of the Mohicans_, _Les Miserables_, _Three Musketeers_, _The Count of Monte Cristo_, _Robinson Crusoe_. The only contemporary novels (other than trashy SciFi paperbacks) I have returned to are from Tom Clancy and Stephen King. And more recently I have read _Cold Mountain_ by Charles Frazier several times. SciFi stuff is just like candy for me, I guess. The last one I really liked was _Cryptonomicon_, can't remember the author. It was fun because the heroes are computer nerds -- and some of them are just as weird as me. :-) ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^----------------------------------------------------------------
