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Mr. Maud's shelves are filled with sci-fi books. Occasionally I try them out, but I rarely finish. Ditto fantasy, save the likes of A.S. Byatt and Roald Dahl and Stephany Aulenback. Someone gave me a copy of The Anubis Gates back in college and after reading fifty pages I was so turned off by the prose (and, believe me, I use that word loosely) that I nearly set fire to it.* (Instead I walked up a flight of stairs to the honors boys' commons area and left it there. It was gone within 10 minutes.)
* Okay, it's true that I read Piers Anthony's Xanth novels when I was twelve. But I read them purely for the sex scenes.
- maud newton, "a word on politics and art," maud newton: blog april 14, 2004
posted May 05, 2004 in print. 20032001