Hey Larry - I re-read the complete Lensman series just last year - and enjoyed it, but found my reading of it much more perceptive of style than when I first did, in my 30's. I don't think its great literature, but the concepts are amazing!
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larry Colen Sent: Sunday, 15 February 2015 5:07 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: An artists rendition of what a finished FF Pentax may look like. Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 14/2/15, Bob W-PDML, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> I'm about to be heretical. I read the HGTTG when it was fairly >> recently published, and was deeply underwhelmed. I think it's badly >> written and unfunny. The basic idea is a good one, badly executed, >> and I've never understood the Douglas Adams worship. > > I heard the radio series when it was first broadcast back in the 1970s. > I think I read the original book. I thought the radio series was very > funny, but as an advanced sci-fi fan with many books under my belt > already, I took it as just a bit of fun - a lampoon of the SF genre. When I was in college, the books were being released in the states, and as they were passed along to each one of my circle of friends, we would read the best parts aloud as we came to them. By the time we had all read the original trilogy we pretty much had the best parts memorized. Many years later I was given a copy of Good Omens, and shortly thereafter discovered diskworld and realized that what Adams was pretty good at, Pratchett was a master of. > > I always thought Asimov was overrated. I was a big fan of Larry Niven, > Clarke, Farmer, Heinlein, and a good dozen more. I've gone back and reread some classic SF. It doesn't always age well. I started reading SF when I was about 6, so 66 or 67. In some ways, I have become a bit more critical of a reader since then, and in other ways the bar has been raised on the sheer quality of writing. > > I plan to dig out my (boxed up) SF library when I retire and re-read the > lot. After a lifetime's experiences, I think it will be a whole new > ballgame :-) I'll say that Stranger in a Strange Land was a very different book to read at 17 than it was when I was 10. A few years back I reread the lensman series and it was very different to read it in 2005 than it was in 1975. I expect that you will find rereading them to be a very interesting experience. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
