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 More options Oct 1 2006, 10:02 pm
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From: jdnic...@panix.com (James Nicoll)
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 02:02:10 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Sun, Oct 1 2006 10:02 pm
Subject: Re: Elizabeth Moon, Engaging the Enemy
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In article <1159750...@sheol.org>, Wayne Throop <thro...@sheol.org> wrote:
>::: "Peter D.  Tillman" <Till...@toast.net_DIESPAMMERSDIE>
>::: Moon's writing just keeps getting better -- in this book, the
>::: quality of writing, world-building and characterization are getting
>::: into the Bujold zone, high praise indeed.

>:: Howard Brazee <how...@brazee.net>
>:: I'm tired of her evil bad guys.  Every book has terribly evil bad
>:: guys.  To many evil types for me to believe.

>What does "too many evil types" mean?  Is that like "too many notes"
>or something?  I guess she does sometimes suffer from unmotivated evil
>syndrome, but that doesn't seem like "too many evil types", exactly.

        Her antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could
write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would
turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.
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