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- From: yee@mipg.upenn.edu (Conway Yee)
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- Subject: Re: Gardner's books
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 01:35:51 GMT
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- WRT to the thread about the Gardner books, I think I can safely offer an
- opinion. With the exception of the last one which came out a month or two
- ago, I have read them all and one first editions of them. I have found the
- plots to be absolutely terrible. In the beginning, Gardner tried to put in
- Fleming-like touches with respect to the careful documentation of the exact
- equipment he used but Gardner is unable to write these things without it
- coming out like a laundry list.
-
- Yes, the plots were a bit unlikely, but so were some of Fleming's. Can we
- seriously believe that the British government would finance the building of
- a missile and not notice that it was supposed to be used to bomb London?
- [This is in Moonraker.]
-
- The writing of Gardner's books, however, is rather poor. He simply is not
- as good a writer as Fleming. I have forced myself to get through all but
- one Gardner novel. They were not a pleasure to read. I am not a big fan
- of all the plot twists that Gardner is so fond of.
-
- Over all, I would say that Gardner's books are a travesty.
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