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From: RMann@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Philip Jose Farmer
Message-ID: <16254@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 13:06:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  1 13:06:00 1984
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Well, I liked the Riverworld series with the following proviso: By time
I got to the end of the last book where the secret was finally revealed,
I was bored to death and couldn't care less. Farmer should have made at
most two books. However, I liked what he did. Basically, this was an
adventure-type story started with a SF-F premise. If you were turned off
by the development, then that's too bad. I thought it was clever and
interesting to "invent" historical characters a give them an interesting
personality. Indeed, it was enough to hold my attention and read the books
effortlessly.

You have to admit that Farmer is not a hack. He is endowed with an excellent
imagination, vision, and well above average writing skills. His latest
book, whose name escapes me, is wonderful. I mean there are people on this
net who like really DULL stuff that I can't read. e.g., the Dragonlovers of
Porn, so when someone says he finds Farmer disappointing, it makes me wonder
what kind of stuff is necessary to get their attention.