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Subject: Re: John Quartermain's of V8 #95
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Date: Mon, 3-Oct-83 20:47:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  3 20:47:39 1983
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"[list of allegedly good sources of titles...] ... Any of these are more
reliable than an sf-lovers poll."

What in Yafa's name do you mean by that??  Do you mean that the opinions
of sf-lovers are somehow of less "merit" than the other sources you
named?  Do you mean that sf-lovers will give spurious and useless
suggestions?

Look, the poll is nothing more than a compilation of the opinions of a
finite set of people.  I would say that anyone who asks the question,
"Hey, what's a good book to read?", whether it be of a so called
"expert", a convention goer, the SF Encyclopedia, or any joe off the
street, gets exactly what they deserve.  So how is it that you find the
poll "unreliable"?


Perry