[UA] A reading suggestion, and two totally unrelated questions

[Kevin Mowery]

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> From: Timothy Toner <thanatos at interaccess.com>
> To: UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re: [UA] A reading suggestion, and two totally unrelated
questions
> Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 8:44 PM
> 
> Well, all this talk of Fatty Arbuckle and DB Cooper puts me in mind of
one
> of my "must reads," the Big Book series by Paradox Press.

	I'm thinking I might have read about Mr. Arbuckle in one of the Big Books,
but I can't think which one.  Conspiracy?

  They're neat
> tomes, each based around a theme:  Hoaxes, little criminals, bad, the
> unexplained, martyrs (a personal favorite), thugs, urban legends (the
first
> and the best), death, scandal, losers, conspiracy, weird wild west, and,
the
> most recent one, vice.  Each book breaks its theme down into topics, and
> each topic is given over to a different artist (usually among the best
> working in the industry).  I've never seen so much information presented
in
> such an entertaining fashion before.  As an example, The Big Book of Vice
> has the following chapters:
> 
> SIn Cities
> Alcohol
> Drugs
> Tobacco
> Sex and more sex
> Gambling
> The Devil's Playground (how vice gets to kids)
> 
> Anyway, pretty damn cool.

	I'll heartily recommend just about all of the Big Books to the list.  Some
don't seem really applicable, but a few are especially good: Conspiracy,
Freaks, Wierd Wild West, Scandal, Bad, and the Unexplained.  I haven't seen
Vice yet, but it sounds really good.
	

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