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Books (was Re: SEV2)
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Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:31:37 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote ...
> Sproaticus wrote:
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> Card is great. His latest "memory of earth" series got a bit logorheaic,
> though. That story could have been told in about 2-3 books instead of
> 5-6.
> ...
It seems to me that more & more authors these days are falling into this
trap. I wonder how much of this is publisher-induced. "Hey, the first two
sold like hotcakes, let's keep this thing going and milk it for all it's
worth!"
> Niven except for RingWorld, Heinlien up to Stranger with one or two
> after that. Liked number of the beast but he was blathering by then. Too
> bad, really.
Number was my first intro to RAH, oh so many years ago (enough that I found
it a book that I couldn't show my parents - maybe that was part of the idea
:-). Came back to it a couple of summers ago and read all his works in
order, an interesting experience to say the least. "Blathering" is a good
word for it. I've referred to it as "the RAH left-turn" as in "the book was
cruising along nicely, then he took a left turn off a cliff!"
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Steven | svore at mindspring .com | kf4fbk | TC++MS++#15LS+M+HalYB64m
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