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"herothatdied" writes:
"Bruce McGuffin" wrote in message news "herothatdied" writes: You got that right. If there's one thing I hate it's books about places different from where I live. Bruce ObCharacter: John Carter? Of Mars? Well, that's where I was going with it. You're a nice-seeming fellow and your posts are always well worth reading And I've always found your judgement to be more than sound ... (I liked this one, though I have to say, there is quite a difference between reading about places foreign and exotic and reading about Minneapolis, and if you tell me that you bought the Lonely Planet guide to the Twin Cities the day it came out, or that you've perused libraries for _just_ the book that finally answers all those questions you had about the qualities that laid the ground for the 1980's Minneapolis theatre scene...) I must confess I've had a special fondness for the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area going back to my formative years, when The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary first introduced me to the concept of Minnetonka. Bruce (I used to know the name of all the quad cities too, but lately I blank on the one that isn't Rock Island, Davenport, or Moline) McGuffin |
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