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Subject: Re: bad bad books
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Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 16:10:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 16:10:11 1986
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> In article <100@cad.UUCP> grady@cad.UUCP (Steven Grady) writes:
> >In a Spider Robnson book I was reading a few weeks ago, he says in
> >the introduction that one author made a bet about writing as bad a book
> >as possible, and the public loved it. He continued these things, and the books
> >are very successful.  Have people heard this rumor?  My first thought
> >is that it would be John Norman's _Gor_ books..
> >
>   Actually, I heard something like this about Heinlein and his "sex" books.
> He apparently wanted to write a ridiculously bad book showing how stupid it
> is to put blatantly sexual stuff in SF.  When he did, people not only took
> it seriously, but thoroughly enjoyed it, so he's still churning 'em out.
> 
 I heard this about Steven Donaldson "Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever" 
 series.....
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