From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:kalash Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Re: Blue Adept Article-I.D.: ucbarpa.1603 Posted: Tue Jun 15 21:42:31 1982 Received: Fri Jun 18 03:17:14 1982 Reply-To: h Gad, am I the ONLY person who thought that both the Phaze and Xanth books read like first drafts? His constant preachiness ("and then he realized that X persons were just as good as everybody else..."), and tendency to pull plot developments out of thin air (the book in "Juxtaposition" was TOTALY unconvincing) really made it second class writing. Joe Kalash ...!ucbvax!kalash kalash@berkeley