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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) The Science Fiction Book Club Will Be Greatly Missed
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:28:53 -0500
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Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <o1nipjhs4dg61ddamqv9ofti245gbc0eso@4ax.com>,
> The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:16:49 -0500, William Hyde
>> <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I went to university here in Toronto, so saved on living expenses.  I
>>> couldn't have afforded to go elsewhere, but then I didn't want to.
>>
>> I'm a Vancouver boy so went to UBC but went to McMaster (just down the
>> road from there) and got both my MBA and MRS (i.e. I met my wife
>> there) - now deceased but we had 37 years together; that and 2 girls
>> and a boy now all grown up with only a 2 year old granddaughter (born
>> 2 months after my wife's passing) to show for it.
>>
>> I lived cheap, got a small scholarship and was the Dean's Teaching
>> Assistant (which didn't pay any more than any other TA but looked good
>> on the resume) so had enough left over for some basic furniture in my
>> first place and her ring.
>>
>> Given cost of business schools these days that wouldn't have been
>> possible.
>>
>>> As for the unwanted ones, well at least when I express my disdain for
>>> them it is from an informed basis.  Painfully informed because I read
>>> everything I bought.
>>
>> Ditto though these days that's about 1/3 of what I read (the rest
>> coming from the public library)
> 
> So did they have a special arm for Canada or did you have to send
> international money orders and pay international postage?

Books were priced in Canadian currency.  Except that initial offer which 
I found in an American magazine.

They made it easy to buy.  Smart of them.

I tried, twice, to subscribe to a new chess magazine published in NY.  I 
sent them cheques in US$, drawn admittedly from a Canadian bank, but one 
which had a presence in NY and was in the top 50 banks in North America.

They couldn't get their bank to cash the cheque.

I'm hoping it was one of those wiped out in 2009.

The magazine went under.

William Hyde