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perlmonger ([personal profile] perlmonger) wrote2006-02-04 10:22 am
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Ravening beams

Tenser, said the Tensor analyses Doc Smith’s usage of language in the Lensmen series. Lovely stuff, though I would disagree that the first two in the series are “lesser prequels”.

It’s probably getting on time to add the whole lot to my to-read heap again.

[identity profile] ccomley.livejournal.com 2006-02-04 10:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yikes. What is it about this ghastly ghastly prose that people seek to read it - and then read it again?

[identity profile] ex-stevewpal562.livejournal.com 2006-02-04 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll stick with the Foundation series. Thank you.

[identity profile] elimloth.livejournal.com 2006-02-04 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I vry much liked the Lensman series (and the Skylark series too). I am afraid, though, that a revisit of these wonderful novels might sully my fond memories of the expanse of places brought on by Bergenholm drive; will the prose endure the test of time? Or, shall I watch Farscape?