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To: zonder who wrote (46421)	8/18/2003 11:37:16 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57110

I liked the laz long books, though he started to get a little twisted on some stuff in them. But some of the subsequent books were just painful...I may just skip over Banks.

To: zonder who wrote (46421)	8/18/2003 12:19:32 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 57110

I thought Heinlein was getting pretty useful for alternative sex education to kids, you know That's fine. But he was marketed as science fiction. :-) You know, the ones in which Lazarus Long is the protagonist :-) Madam, that was just one minor incident in a long, busy life. :-) if you are at all interested That's OK. I'm busy today. I need to watch the grass to make sure it grows. :-) This guy, right? 146.74.92.11@!392590@!3100001@!3100002&aspect=basic_search&menu=search&ri=1&source=146.74.92.11@!horizon&term=The+player+of+games+%2F&index=PALLTI Trust him to write more. There's always assassination. :-)

To: zonder who wrote (46421)	8/21/2003 6:46:07 PM
From: Tom Swift	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57110

You just mentioned the only two of Ian Banks' books that I have read. I rather enjoyed Player of Games, though it was a little long. I threw Feersum Enjin in the trash after the first few chapters. Are any of the other "Culture" books worth reading? they are hard to find. There is currently only one listed on E-bay, "Inversions" Player of Games was rather interesting and so was Use of Weapons and Inversions. I read 10-12 more before I finally gave up on the guy while painfully laboring through a book called Feersum Injinn or something, most of which is written by a character who apparently finds it unnecessary to conform to generally accepted spelling rules, but has invented some phonetical writing of his own. Argh.