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Subject: Re: old classics - i.e. BOOKS not about PORN
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Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 09:53:50 EST
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> I started to read some old classics that everyone I know read
> in high school or before...

del@wuphys has a wonderful idea! After "Roughing It", try "Life on
the Mississippi" and "The Innocents Abroad". Then try some Kipling:
I loved "Kim" when young, and still do. For humor, try Kipling's
short story "The Village that Voted that the Earth was Flat". Beyond
these, does anyone else feel Kipling's science fiction has been
undeservedly ignored?