On 12/12/2010 9:45 AM, Kathryn Huxtable wrote:   
   > On 2010-12-10 21:14:36 -0600, Andrew Swallow said:   
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   > I really love the Lensman series, but I consider it a guilty pleasure.   
   > The books are horribly dated and Smith's writing is, frankly, not that   
   > good.   
      
   I have only read Triplanetary.  I found it hard to get through.  "not    
   that good" doesn't begin to cover it.  "Horribly dated" is accurate however.   
      
   It exhibited consistency on a level I have only seen in Plan 9 from    
   Outer Space.   
      
   > I'd buy them again if they were available for the Kindle. (I have mass   
   > market copies from the 1970s and trade paperbacks from Old Earth Books   
   > that I purchased sometime this century.)   
   >   
   > While I would certainly go see a movie production of the series, it just   
   > seems a bit odd as a project to do. I have a hard time believing that   
   > anyone raised after about 1980 could get into them.   
      
   I was raised way before 1980 and still found Triplanetary so dated that    
   finishing it could only be described as a struggle.   
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