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- Subject: Mostly Harmful?
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- From: rkallberg@vax.cord.edu
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:17:15 GMT
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- Anyone who says Adams has lost his touch as a comic writer has not read
- "Last Chance to See", the environmental book he wrote about his jaunts
- around the world to look at vanishing wildlife. It's not only socially
- relevant, it's funny, charming, and haunting, and it is in my view some
- of the best comic work written by anyone, ever. And it's mostly true.
- Adams' fable at the end about the books containing all the knowledge in
- the world is a minor masterpiece.
-
- But you're right. I didn't like Mostly Harmless NEARLY as well as any of
- Adams' other books. But at least read LCTS before you give up on him
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