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Foolacious

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6. I had the same reaction on trying to reread "The Mote"

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 16, 2020, 12:16 PM

Mar 2020

Didn’t hold up well. Plot mechanics and characters that seemed fine when I was a teenager didn’t work in my sixties.

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Lucifer's Hammer (novel) [View all] Odoreida Mar 2020 OP

Read that book in the eighties. I'm rereading The Stand. Va Lefty Mar 2020 #1

I loved Niven and Pournelle as a kid exboyfil Mar 2020 #2

Seeing as now I have nothing, but, time on my hands... Hugin Mar 2020 #5

I had the same reaction on trying to reread "The Mote" Foolacious Mar 2020 #6

The surfer was very memorable... Boxerfan Mar 2020 #3

Now, I want to read it. Jamastiene Mar 2020 #4

Haven't read that in years ismnotwasm Mar 2020 #7

Another good book series is Dies the Fire - about people banding together after an EMF Hestia Mar 2020 #8

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