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Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 07:36:46 EDT
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ucbesvax!turner    May 22 23:37:00 1983

	I can testify from personal experience that Destroyer novels
are wholly devoid of redeeming social value.  They are the purest
of trash--no tangles of international intrigue, as with Ludlum.  No
pretensions to taste-making, as with Fleming.  They are racist, sexist
and brutal.  Even a cursory reading will reveal the basic mercenary intent
of the authors--were it not for a buoyant sense of humor, which is at its
most oblique when directed at the readers themselves (for indulging in
Destroyer novels), these turkeys would not be worth reading at all.

	I should know.  I read about 15 of them over a Christmas
vacation.  Luckily, they were from someone else's collection, or I
would have been forced to actually BUY these scabrous flecks of pulp.
Don't even read ONE!  You'll regret it.

	Don't Say You Weren't Warned,
		Michael Turner
		ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner

P.S.  The "best" of the series?  I don't know.  The worst was "Acid Rock".
      The first one was OK--even the title was a scream: "Created: The
      Destroyer".