| Mark Houlsby 2005-05-17, 8:34 pm |
| >Mark Houlsby wrote:
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> Not strictly true.
Excuse me. I sit corrected.
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> I make my living as a computer programmer in the
banking business, IBM mainframe COBOL systems mainly. Chess book
editing is a sideline, and book reviewing involves no payment, other
than the book itself.
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> It's only in the last few years that chess-related reading has taken
up so much of my spare time. When it doesn't, I read on a wide variety
of subjects: history, natural science, philosophy, the arts, pop
culture, sci-fi, comparative religion, literary classics, etc.
The fact that you read widely is all the more reason why you should
prioritise Pynchon,
I suggest....
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