Dolata@SUMEX-AIM (01/01/83)
I would definately NOT suggest 'The Ayes of Texas'. In fact, I would suggest NOT 'The Ayes of Texas'. The first 69 (?) pages of the book are a well written, fast paced action story about a young roust-about who gets into the Navy, goes to WWII, gets wounded, and how his life is turned around in a VA hospital. I enjoyed this part of the book completely, as did 2 other people I talked with. However, after that point the book falls apart, and I found my self skipping big sections to get to the end quickly. To begin with, the politics are so right-wing that my John Birch father sounds down right liberal in comparison. A scenario is set up in which the bad guy Russkies have completed a civil defense system so invulnerable, that they can dictate unilateral disarmament to the US, and we rush to comply! Apparently all of the American hawks and conservatives are asleep, or have moved. But don't worry, our hero and the governor of Texas defeat the red fleet all by themselves, in a scene which is amusing because of the grandure of the ideas, marred only by the fact that they are technologically absurd. Read the Rosinante books by Gilliland (sp?) instead, they are excellent. Dan Dolata (Dolata@SUMEX-AIM) -------