NOT recommended reading!

[Lew Rockwell Fan]

It wasn't criticism. Just curiosity. Does Guiness have an entry for this?

 

[BAYLOR]

Baylor, I'm curious. What is the oldest post you've replied to and gotten a response from the poster you quoted? Anywhere, not just here.

I don't know. It's something I don't really keep track of.

 

[Cat's Cradle]

I really enjoy when old posts are brought back to life! I would guess it's usually not done hoping that the OP who, perhaps, has been gone from the site for ten years, will come back to respond. Sometimes we're resurrecting really interesting threads (such as this one) and I'll enjoy the new discussions, and sometimes it's really cool to see how thoughts on a topic might have changed in the 10...12...even 15 years since the original posts were made. I like finding out about people who used to be on the site, too.
And once in awhile you'll actually see someone who maybe has been gone ten years come back onsite, and that's really amazing.
As to the subject for this thread, I'll mention that I truly love The Mote in God's Eye...but I read The Gripping Hand (Mote's sequel) last year, and thought it was an embarrassment. I thought none of the original characters acted as they had in the first book, and that the writing was exceptionally bad. It seemed to me that the authors hadn't bothered to take the time to plot the book out properly, and that their individual sections of the book didn't mesh at all with each other's. It was a huge disappointment, and maybe that makes it especially Not Recommended Reading...I had hoped for so much, after the way I reacted to the first book. (Just my opinions...of course another's views might be entirely different.)

 

[Phyrebrat]

And if he hadn't resurrected this zombie, I'd not have been able to put The Passage in here. I was expecting some stupendous story and some of it was great, but it needed a third - at least - editing out. And then I hear it's part of a series?

But, and I quake even typing his name, but Ddddddean Koontz.... (Although in the interests of transparency, I should admit I rather liked his The Taking.)

pah

 

[The Big Peat]

Can his title be changed to The Great Necromancer?

I have to say, I've got nuffink for this thread except I do anti-recommend The Colour of Magic to non-Pratchett readers, but that's more because I find it very unrepresentative of Discworld than disliking it. I mean, I do think its not all that, but that's like just my taste man. Far better to say what a book does well and doesn't do well than whether I like it or not...

 

[BAYLOR]

Baylor is a time traveller, so your question will make no sense.

Also, I support old threads

I do like to resurrect and resuscitate the past.