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Re: Science Fiction (was Re: Transit Time to Mars)
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Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:08:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Selçuk Göre writes:
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> > By the way, why no body mentions Douglas Adam's Hitchiker series?..:-)
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> Possibly because, while it's entertaining, it's also fairly straightforward
> farce with uneven characterization and plot. Don't get me wrong--I've read it
> all, and I quite enjoy it, but it lacks, to me, much of the strength of these
> other "canonical" works we've discussed.
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> Dave!
I do think it's canonical farce, up there with Harvard Lampoon's
"Bored of the Rings" and Gaimen/Pratchett's "Good Omens."
--
jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
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| (...) it (...) Ugh! I found "Bored" to be perfectly dreadful! As for Pratchett, he differs from Adams, and always has, in that Pratchett's work has been satire without being baggy-pants farce in line with the stereotypical (as commonly held by some (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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