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From: chabot@miles.DEC (All God's chillun got guns)
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Subject: Re: To Reign in Hell & Steve Brust
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 18:54:14 EDT
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> 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