And lo on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:22:40 -0000, Ross <rli### [at] speakeasynet>  
did spake, saying:

> "Phil Cook" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote in message
> news:op.t4ews0hkc3xi7v@news.povray.org...
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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.

Well the second is really more an interlude linking the events between one  
and three, so it would be unfair to judge it against the 'full' novels. As  
Gail said though it's all down to a matter of each to their own.

-- 
Phil Cook

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