Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!RMann@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA 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 Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16254 Posted: Wed Feb 1 13:06:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 02:46:34 EST Lines: 16 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.