On 12/16/2010 7:03 AM, Kathryn Huxtable wrote:   
   > 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   
   >   
      
   That explains why I didn't like it.  I ceased being 15 in 1960, and read    
   Triplanetary 50 years later.   
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