On 2010-12-15 15:45:10 -0600, Donald Arseneau said:   
   > Kathryn Huxtable  writes:   
   >    
   >> On 2010-12-13 09:09:27 -0600, Kathryn Huxtable said:   
   >>    
   >>> 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.   
   >>    
   >> I should add that when I reread the Lensman series, which I occasionally do,   
   >> I start either with _Galactic Patrol_, or occasionally with _First Lensman_,   
   >    
   > All I've read is 2/3 of Galactic Patrol.  I accidentally (yes, accidentally,   
   > so far as I consciously know) left it on a plane and have not felt the urge   
   > to resume.   
   That sounds reasonable. I think you have to have gotten into it by    
   about age 15 in order to really like it. Encountered after that age    
   it's intolerable.   
   -K   
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