Tony wrote:
> "Wild Monkshood" <Wild_Monkshood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:1e1f7$487fcb81$621016f8$1881@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>
>>Tony wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"Wild Monkshood" <Wild_Monkshood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Fred wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On a happier (and far more satisfying) note, I started re-reading the
>>>>>original
>>>>>series again. It ha been mentioned that with every read, new things
>>>>>emerge and I
>>>>>can concur with that.
>>>>>As to the fodder produced by Brian and Kev, I read "House Atreides"
and
>>>>>struggled
>>>>>through about half of House Harkonnen before throwing them both into
the
>>>>>recycle
>>>>>bin.
>>>>
>>>>You must really hate recycle bins. :) You want to know a true abortion
of
>>>>decency? When you go to the "Herbert" section at my local library
branch,
>>>>there is one worn copy of "Children of Dune", one worn copy of "The
White
>>>>Plague" and about ten different prequel and sequel books by the
Gruesome
>>>>Twosome.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Those prequels definitely suck.
>>
>>Just a pet peeve of mine, but why did you think I'd want my post to be
>>crossposted to a group I don't even read? Seems a little rude....
>>
>
> I thought with all the servers dropping the alt category, it might make
> sense to sup****t rec.arts.sf.dune. I also didn't anticipate that you
would
> mind. :-|
It's not that I mind so much. Like I said, it's a pet peeve. I often
see it used as a weapon, which is not the case here. People, for
example, will sometimes post an "enemies" words to alt.usenet.kooks, to
try to trigger negative events. Now, I do try to trim off groups that I
don't read before posting, but often do forget.
WM
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