Incidentally, my dad writes the following about FATHERS' DAY:
Fred: I have now switched to Pine. It is hard to teach old dog's new programs of whatever ilk. I have also created a bookmark--a new trick to be sure--on the WWW so I can readily access your impressive, if slightly idiosyncratic, book club. I have read through Father's Day. Thanks again for the thoroughly appropriate gift. I can't say as I thought the book a classic or even in the class of the best of this kind of genre HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER for instance. The characters never developed very much and it was pretty clear from the outset that the group scheduled to kill the more or less good president was not going to kill him and that the usurper president wasn't going to be alive at the end. There are also far better succession story novels--the best I think of immediately are CPSnow's story of the search for a dean at Oxbridge ( what's the title? Ah, yes of course: The Masters) and a wonderful book by a guy whose name I won't remember who we tried to keep from going to the University of Virginia (unsccessfully) on Sir Walter Raleigh. I know where it is in my book cases; when you finish the current class I'll lend it to you. I thought it was just terrific. Love, Pop/Dad/Granddaddy,etc.
Editor's Recommendations, Summer 1996In this inaugural edition of IBIC's Featured Books, I'd like to draw your attention to several titles which have helped to shape my life and thinking.
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