On 2010-12-12 23:53:57 -0600, jjs@xmission.com said:   
   > 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.   
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   > 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.   
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   > It exhibited consistency on a level I have only seen in Plan 9 from    
   > Outer Space.   
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   >> 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.)   
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   >> 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.   
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   > I was raised way before 1980 and still found Triplanetary so dated that    
   > finishing it could only be described as a struggle.   
   Well, Triplanetary was shoehorned into the Lensman series after the    
   fact. The main Lensman series are _Galactic Patrol_, _Gray Lensman_,    
   _Second Stage Lensmen_, and _Children of the Lens_. These are what, I    
   gather, JMS has been adapting. The writing is better in them than in    
   Triplanetary.   
   Yes, the writing will not affect the adaptation, but many other things    
   in the background are dated. I suppose that they're not essential and    
   can be changed in a screenplay, but the whole multi-generational battle    
   between "freedom" and "dictatorship" might not play that well. Then    
   again, it might.   
   -K   
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