From: utzoo!decvax!cca!NEWCOMER@CMU-CS-C@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Books to avoid
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.76
Posted: Sat Dec 11 21:13:00 1982
Received: Mon Dec 13 01:23:41 1982

From:  Joseph M. Newcomer <NEWCOMER at CMU-CS-C>

I recently got Harry Harrison's "Planet of No Return" and Poul Anderson's
"Starship" in the "Jim Baen presents..." paperback editions.  A warning:
if spelling errors bother you, avoid these two books.  They are disasters.
I doubt that they ever went through a proofreeding process at all.  Besides,
Planet Of No Return is not even a particularly good story; even if you
don't mind spelling errors, you probably mind cardboard characters miming
their way through cardboard situations.  I'd call it a bad juvenile at
best.
					joe
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