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Subject: re: STARSHIP TROOPERS
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Date: Sat, 11-May-85 07:57:21 EDT
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From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA

> From:	ncoast!bsa	(Brandon Allbery)

> Quoted from <168@hyper.UUCP> by brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust)...
>> Yes.  To paraphrase one notable SF writer (Pamela Dean), "Starship
>> Troopers is infuriating and you can't stay away from it."  This
>
>
> What is it everyone sees wrong with STARSHIP TROOPERS?

Well, I can't speak for Pamela Dean (she speaks well enough for
herself, thank you), but I can tell you what *I* saw wrong with
STARSHIP TROOPERS. It was dull, dull, dull! You can say whatever
you feel like in defense of it, but I tried *three* times to read
it, and never got through more than about a third of it.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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