[net.sf-lovers] Books to avoid

NEWCOMER@CMU-CS-C@sri-unix (12/12/82)

From:  Joseph M. Newcomer <NEWCOMER at CMU-CS-C>

I recently got Harry Harrison's "Planet of No Return" and Poul Anderson's
"Starship" in the "Jim Baen presents..." paperback editions.  A warning:
if spelling errors bother you, avoid these two books.  They are disasters.
I doubt that they ever went through a proofreeding process at all.  Besides,
Planet Of No Return is not even a particularly good story; even if you
don't mind spelling errors, you probably mind cardboard characters miming
their way through cardboard situations.  I'd call it a bad juvenile at
best.
					joe
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