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Subject: Philip Jose Farmer
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Date: Thu, 19-Jan-84 20:20:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 19 20:20:00 1984
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eirdstone of Brisengamen (sp?)- great book except for the way everything is
wrapped up in the last few pages [do read it and the sequel, though]).  Farmer,
though, just had a good opening hook and went nowhere with it (an his ideas are
ordinary and the literary style is nothing special).  I figured that after the
good opening hook that the ending was probably worth all the wading through.  I
was wrong.  I would like to see anyone explain why it is a top-calibre series.
My guess is that people read it as it was coming out and got suckered along the
same way I did except that with the long time between reading the books tended
to remember the earlier ones in a better light in anticipation of what they were
leading up to (they seemed like they were leading up to a really great ending &
all we got was a fizzle [I was soooo bummed]).  So how about it all ye who feel
its worth recommending, why don't you tell us why?
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