On 13/12/2010 05:53, jjs@xmission.com wrote:   
   > On 12/12/2010 9:45 AM, Kathryn Huxtable wrote:   
      
   >> 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.   
   >   
      
   That's mainly the stilted language and writing style, things that would    
   not be transferred to any movie adaption.   
      
   However, I don't think that the names "Lensmen" or "Doc Smith" have any    
   currency these days.   
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