Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club
edited by Bill Henderson

Pushcart Press: December 1996. Paperback (7-inch square): 235 pages. ISBN-10: 0-9163662-0-0 Suggested retail price: $12.50 (US) Tags: Essays; leadite; Luddite; Technology Tactical strength: [4/10]

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This collection of essays, pull quotes, and cartoons criticizes life with computers and advocates abandoning technology in favor of face-to-face contact and hand-written communication sent by surface mail. Most of the essays do not quote any hard facts to support their positions and instead sound like someone whining about a life with too many demands and not enough time. I doubt that abandoning the computer in favor of a pencil will really bring about the fictional, nostalgic past these people seem to think existed before the technology boom. Instead if inspiring me to join their cause, Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club made me want to respond to these whiny voices with, "Oh, cry me a river."