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Re: Science Fiction (was Re: Transit Time to Mars)
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Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:21:03 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jeff Thompson writes:
> I do think it's canonical farce, up there with Harvard Lampoon's
> "Bored of the Rings" and Gaimen/Pratchett's "Good Omens."
I can't manage to slog my way through most of the Lampoon stuff. I got about
three pages farther into "Bored" than I did into "Doon"
Good Omens, on the other hand, is one of my all-time favorite books.
"A demon who did not so much fall as saunter vaguely downwards"
:)
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| (...) A personal favorite here, as well, but it suffers from Pratchett's formerly widespread problem of creating a problem too big to solve by the end of the book. That is, the crisis escalates and escalates, then in the course of two paragraphs he (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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