Doug's Library - The Mail Bag

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Last Update: January 1, 2001


On this page, I have links to some of the best messages I've received in response to this page, including many very long letters with lots of excellent ideas for future reading. I've individually linked the letters I liked the most and placed the rest of the feedback into another file so you can see everything if you like. The large file of small letters is filled with lots of letters with single-book recommendations and is definitely worth reading.

I haven't gotten much email about this page in the last year or two, mainly because the site administrators at TCU move my hierarchies around so much they are probably virtually impossible to find now. However, when I get enough letters collected for another decent-sized batch, I will update this page again. I've gotten so many recommendations over the years that this page accomplished its original purpose in spades, but I always welcome correspondence.

The letters are in text format rather than HTML. When appropriate, I have summarized my response to the letter by quoting myself on lines prefaced by "##". Please contact me if you would like your letter to be left off of this page. Individual letters are listed in order of date received.

If you're writing largely to disagree with one or more of my opinions, and particularly if you are very angry about something I've written, please consider the following first.

Click here to send me email with your input.

Individual letters

Jeff Brown's letter

Magali Mathieu's letter

W. S. Retert's letter

David Kennedy's letter

Eric Nehrlich's letter

Mike Lucas' letter

Topher White's letter

Robin Mercer's letter

Steven Levitt's letter

Bob Pascal's letter (Part I)

Bob Pascal's letter (Part II)

Jay Samples' letter

Nancy Proctor's letter

Brian Lang's letter

Anil Menon's letter

Kiri Wagstaff's letter

David Morris' letter

Chris Pearce's letter

Laura Caudle's letter

James Park's letter

Tony Gardner's letter (1st of 6 over a long period of time)

Tony Gardner's letter (Part II)

Tony Gardner's letter (Part III)

Tony Gardner's letter (Part IV)

Tony Gardner's letter (Part V)

Tony Gardner's letter (Part VI)

Tartan Collier's letter

Phil McDown's letter

Randy Welch's letter

Letter from aef@dbaplaza.com

Gary Mengle's letter

Scott Promesh's letter

Brandon Wu's letter

Jose Vazquez's letter

Pedro Mizukami's letter

Zack Hall's letter (and my brief responses)

Scott Lewis' letter

Mylee Ejercito's letter

Collection of all 'long' letters above (218K)

Remaining letters sorted into pieces by date

Part 1 (10/94 - 05/95)

Part 2 (06/95 - 07/95)

Part 3 (08/95 - 09/95)

Part 4 (10/95 - 11/95)

Part 5 (12/95 - 01/96)

Part 6 (02/96 - 03/96)

Part 7 (04/96 - 05/96)

Part 8 (06/96 - 07/96)

Part 9 (08/96 - 09/96)

Part 10 (10/96 - 11/96)

Part 11 (12/96 - 01/97)

Part 12 (02/97 - 03/97)

Part 13 (04/97 - 05/97)

Part 14 (06/97 - 07/97)

Part 15 (08/97 - 09/97)

Part 16 (10/97 - 11/97)

Part 17 (12/97 - 01/98)

Part 18 (02/98 - 07/98) *

Part 19 (08/98 - 09/98)

Part 20 (09/98 - 12/98)

Collection of all 'short' letters (787K)

* - Mail I received between the dates of April 14 and July 29, 1998 was lost in a strange incident in which I accidentally deleted a file and then didn't realize it until I much later, after I had sufficiently written enough new files to a backup drive that I could no longer even recover the deleted file! My sincere apologies to those who wrote letters during that time.


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