Thanks for your kind comments. It is good to know that there is another Australian (I'm assuming you are one) that appreciates EW's books. I'm sure you won't be disillusioned reading the books - they really are something special, even after umpteen readings.

Anne

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: Dear Anne
: Thank you an uncountable number of times for
: setting up this wonderful and informative
: site. I read Jerusalem Poker in 1986 when
: I was 18 and being idealistic on an
: Israeli kibbutz. It was a beaten-up old
: paperback edition from the kibbutz
: library, and I took it with me on a visit
: to Jerusalem and read most of it there, at
: various spots around the Old City. I was
: tempted to keep it when I eventually left
: for home, but decided that it would be
: wrong to deny other travellers the
: pleasure of discovery. Besides, there
: were guards at the gate with Uzis, and I
: wasn't entirely clear what their search
: policy was...
: The book stayed with me, though, in its
: kaleidoscope of images and stories and
: characters and enormous lies and
: staggering truths. Stunningly (or perhaps
: stupidly...) I didn't discover until last
: year that that EW was an unsung megastar
: of truth-telling fantastical history
: literature, that there were other books,
: that it was a quartet - and that it was
: virtually impossible to get hold of any of
: them unless you had spare limbs to barter
: with. And then today I read your
: Amazon.com reviews, and found my way here,
: and read that the books are going to be
: reissued... and now I'm just in a happy
: happy haze and feel that a circle of my
: life that I didn't even know I was drawing
: is finally coming to a close. Or will do
: just as soon as I get my hands on those
: Old Earth editions. And I will indeed go
: through that Melbourne bookshop you
: mentioned, so thank you for that too.
: You've done me and hopefully many others a
: fine service here. Congratulations, and
: thank you again.
: Robert Cook
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