On 13/12/2010 15:09, Kathryn Huxtable wrote:   
   > On 2010-12-12 23:53:57 -0600, jjs@xmission.com said:   
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   >> On 12/12/2010 9:45 AM, Kathryn Huxtable wrote:   
   >>> On 2010-12-10 21:14:36 -0600, Andrew Swallow said:   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
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