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- From: obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB)
- Subject: Literary peeves was Re: My trip out West
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.035431.611@netcom.com>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:54:31 GMT
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- Blair.Haworth@launchpad.unc.edu (Blair Haworth) writes:
- >
- >Of course, the modal peever (or is that mean standard peeviant?) can still
- >find a lot to like in late Heinlein: he was, after all, foursquare in
- >favor of firearms, large powerful vehicles and gratuitous aardvarking to
- >the end, and contemptuous of bureaucrats, and incompetents. Shitfire, the
- >last half of _Expanded Universe_ is pretty much a solid three-hundred-page
- >peeve.
- >
- >
- >!Peeve: Bad Heinlein still beats hell outta no Heinlein.
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-
- I'll second that!
- I even found (Ginnie's) _Grumbles_from_the_Grave_ entertaining,
- being that I knew that was all there was. Definitely worth at least
- checking out from the library.
-
- Peeve: _the_Number_of_the_Beast_, when they got to Oz, I was *pissed*
- Made me think maybe he gave blood once or twice too many and went
- oxy-deprived or something.
-
- Peeve: The label "juvenile" and my own stupid arrogance kept me from
- reading a lot of RAH's stuff when I first encountered it.
-
- Peeve: That I never even *heard of* Ayn Rand until College.
-
- Bob O'Bob
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