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Article #596562Re: E.R. Burroughs
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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 19:34
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 19:34
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On 2016-07-22, Bud Frede <fr...@mouse-potato.com> wrote: > Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes: > >> Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: >>> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 6:02:07 AM UTC-6, Peter Flass wrote: >>> >>>> I don't even remember now, but I do recall chipping messages into a stone >>>> tablet and sending them by camel caravan. >>> >>> Have you visited Mars - after an encounter with hostile Apache Indians - by any >>> chance? >>> >> >> Yes, I left my thoat double-parked when I came back. > > After reading a number of references to ER Burroughs in Robert > Heinlein's books and talking to other people that enjoyed them, I wanted > to like the Barsoom books. > > I didn't particularly care for the several that I read, although they > were better than the Tarzan books I tried. I kept thinking, "When is it > going to get good, like I've heard people say it is?" > > Heinlein also talked up EE Smith. I tried some of the Lensman books and > Skylark books and they're not my cup of tea either. > > I'll go for a trifecta. One of my friends tried to get me interested in > the Conan books. They put me to sleep. > > I'm sure there is someone out there who will denounce me for not knowing > great fiction when I see it, but I'll just have to hang my head in shame > and live with it. Almost all fantasy-fiction books, say 1880-1950 were racist. Heinlein was a good writer, but a psyc* would spend weeks dredging his deepest needs. Then psych* aare full of shi* anyway. I must reread Clarke's "The City and the Stars" again. -- greymaus.ireland.ie . . ...
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