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From: argo@hou2a.UUCP (W.GARRETT)
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Subject: Re: Flaming at Heinlein
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Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 22:14:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  3 22:14:01 1984
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	WHAT!!! "I will fear no evil" will last?!!!  That has got to be one
of the worst books I have ever read, and as I've read a good deal of Heinlein's
other works, that's saying something.  I thoroughly enjoyed about the first
50 pages of this book, up until Johann Smith became Joan, at which point it
degenerated into, uh ... well, I can't think what it became, but certainly
not a good book.
	One thing I have noticed about Heinlein is his absolute inability to
handle anticlimax.  For that matter, he doesn't do an especially good job
with the climax either, but it is his ridiculously long and boring 
anticlimaxes that truly stand out.
	To give him his due, what very little he deserves, I have found some
of his short stories have hit the lower bounds of mediocrity, and one or two
actually approach decency, but that is as far as I will go.



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