Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!packard!edsel!bentley!ihnp1!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-miles!chabot From: chabot@miles.DEC (All God's chillun got guns) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: To Reign in Hell & Steve Brust Message-ID: <3584@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 18:54:14 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3584 Posted: Mon Aug 12 18:54:14 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 00:25:57 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 19 > Admittedly fantasy is my least favorite form of fiction ... Well, then maybe you shouldn't review it. > ...but this book borderlined on what Roger Ebert likes to call "The Idiot > Plot". Actually, Joanna Russ attributed this coining to Damon Knight long before most of us ever heard of Ebert; maybe Ebert reads Knight, or maybe it is rightfully attributed it to someone else. And anyway, I disagree: I think most of the characters acted in as intelligently as they could. Perhaps they were naive--but then how often had they ever experienced deceit? I felt exuberant when I'd finished the book on a plane flight; it was a real page-turner, and most of the time when I fly I'd rather sleep than read. L S Chabot ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot chabot%amber@decwrl.arpa