"Phil Cook" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote in message 
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> And lo on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:48:31 -0000, Gail Shaw sa dot com> 
> <"<initialsurname"@sentech> did spake, saying:
>
>>
>> "Phil Cook" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote in message
>> news:op.t4etagikc3xi7v@news.povray.org...
>>> And lo on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:30:29 -0000, Gail Shaw sa dot com>
>>> <"<initialsurname"@sentech> did spake, saying:
>>
>>> > What was confusing about this anyway?
>>>
>>> 'Oh yes despite not having read the book I completely understood what 
>>> the
>>> chimps and the space baby were all about'
>>
>> I did. I read the book after watching the movie. Understood if better 
>> after the book, but the movies didn't leave me going Huh???
>
> Well obviously some of us are more intelligent then others, and by some of 
> us I mean you and by others I mean me :-)
>
>>> Does that make me a heretic if I said I actually prefered Children and
>>> God-Emperor then :-) I just enjoyed the ways they tried to answer some 
>>> of
>>> the paradoxes of prediction and offered some possible solutions.
>>
>> Not at all. I ran out of patience on the 3rd book. I really prefered the
>> first one.
>> Each to their own.
>
> Indeed. The third one does drag until Jacurutu, but the forth amused.
>
> -- 
> Phil Cook

The first is great, I've read it atleast twice. I read the second twice as 
well, because I was planning on reading the third recently, and couldn't 
remember what happened in the second execpt for broad plotlines. I've heard 
that the third is better than the second, but still not as good as the 
first.

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