On 2010-12-16 08:31:42 -0600, jjs@xmission.com said:   
   > 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.   
   Yeah, that's way too late. You have to be willing to overlook too much    
   bad writing and unbelievable characters. Also, some relatively silly    
   background.   
   -K   
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