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Re: Reading Jules Verne--any takers?

From: Norm Wolcott <nwolcott2~at~kreative.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:14:20 -0400
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

I'm sorry bribing someone to read doesn't count, nor assigned texts in
school or sci-fi classes, nor being non native english speaker, and it
doesn't count if you read the book in 1960 when you were under 30. However
we do seem to have 1 or 2 now under 30 who on their own have read some
Verne. My guess was that if we asked the same question of non-english
speakers we would get quite different results--german, serbo-croat, etc
probably much higher scores, even dutch. France? my guess is zero.

When I was teaching computer basics in a college course a few years ago I
used a deck of cards to demonstrate the different methods of sorting--sort
by suit then by number; sort by number then by suit, etc. I thought it was
kind of neat. The only problem was that none of the students had ever seen a
deck of cards! Times do change.
nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu Friar Wolcott, Gutenberg Abbey, Sherwood Forrest
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Keeline" <keeline~at~yahoo.com>
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: Reading Jules Verne--any takers?


> I'm nearly 37 now, I did all of my reading of Verne stories before I was
30. I
> still collect the books and will occasionally pick up a new story and read
it.
> My guess is that it is not as rare as the question suggests.
>
> James D. Keeline
> http://www.Keeline.com
> http://Stratemeyer.org
>
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