Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!mcnc!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!jmd From: jmd@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: 'Buckaroo Banzai' - (nf) Message-ID: <1680@inmet.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 00:41:50 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.1680 Posted: Wed Aug 22 00:41:50 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 00:44:06 EDT Lines: 17 #R:ucla-cs:-63100:inmet:6500051:000:777 inmet!jmd Aug 7 14:51:00 1984I read the novelization of "Buckaroo Banzai" - I found it in the store in the section where they have the current best-sellers and not in the science-fiction section where it belongs. The book is hilarious. It is a light-hearted romp through science-fiction ala "Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers" by Harry Harrison. Buckaroo Banzai is the head of the Banzai Institute, a philanthropic bastion of free-thinking freedom fighters and PhD's. Buckaroo is a talented surgeon and doctor (to the President, no less), top-notch physicist, and rock star. His battle with the Lectroids of the Eighth Dimension is something out of the style of E.E. "Doc" Smith. This one looks like a real sleeper! Jeff Diewald {ihnp4|ima|harpo}!inmet!jmd