Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!ucbcad!ucbesvax.turner From: ucbesvax.turner@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Message-ID: <86@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 07:36:46 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbcad.86 Posted: Wed Jun 15 07:36:46 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jun-83 06:08:53 EDT Lines: 24 #R:ogcvax:-32000:ucbesvax:1700006:37777777600:1030 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".