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From: figmo@tymix.Tymnet.ARPA
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Subject: First SF book -- an "anti-suggestion"
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Date: Sat, 7-Sep-85 10:53:05 EDT
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From: figmo@tymix.Tymnet (Lynn Gold)


Harrison's "The Stainless Steel Rat" is ok, but I would hesitate to
recommend it as a first book.  It had a well-thought-out storyline,
but some of the writing was atrocious from a grammatical standpoint.
I ESPECIALLY would not recommend it to a woman as first-time reading.
There were too many aspects of the book which came off as an adolescent
male's sexual fantasies; I'd come to these passages where I'd think,
"How much longer is this going to go on for before we get back to the
action?" when Slippery Jim was fantasizing about Angelina.

--Lynn

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