[rescue] Re: [geeks] IKEA "Jerker" desk instructions?

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:05:47PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 16:46, Kevin wrote:
> > All of your statements about "In the beginning" were true, but i
> > still enjoyed it enough to read it twice.
> 
> I don't know what I was expecting, but I couldn't understand what the
> publisher was expecting to happen whenit ws published. (I haven't, and
> probably won't, read his novels, as the one comment I heard on one of
> his novels was that it started out very good, but fell apart in the
> second half of the book.)

If you're basing that decision on one comment on one book, I'd suggest
reconsideration.

Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Zodiac, and Cryptonomicon are all (IMHO)
excellent.


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