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shvarz:
If you have not read it yet, it is time (well, it's been almost 40 years since it was written).  It is one of the best sci-fi works ever written and I put it up on our web-site for a while.  Grab it here, read it and then post your thoughts.  It is fairly short, about long-story or short-novella size.

PurpleYouko:
If you consider that to be one of the best then your definition of good bears absolutely no resemblance to my own.

This story appears to be nothing more than a disjointed string of words put together in some random pattern with frequent references to the grosser forms of sex.

If an infinite number of monkeys banging away on an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time, could produce the entire works of shakespear then about 10 monkeys could produce this garbage in half a day.

True to his usual rantings, Philip Jose Farmer takes a crappy story and makes it worse by bringing sex into it in completely inappropriate ways. Sigmund Freud would have had a field days with this guy.

As soon as I saw the name of the author I was pretty sure the story would suck and sure enough, PJF didn't dissapoint me. Other than that I had an incredibly hard time keeping up with the rather violent changes in what the story is going on about.

This classic is IMO an unadulterated pile of bollox. If I had paid good money for this (like I did for "A Feast Unknown" by the same author) I would have demanded it back.

(I should have been a critic  B) )

shvarz:
What?!  Did you actually finish the story or just gave up after the first paragraph?  This is nothing like "Feast unknown", which sucks even by PJFs standards (and they are not very high).

This is the real deal, with interesting plot, beleivable characters, tons of cool ideas, million of word-plays...  All together written with humor and sadness and pain.  I know it 's strange to hear that about PJF, but it is true - just read the story.

PJF wrote so much crap that these jewels are very hard to find and not many do.  So thank me for sifting through all the crap for you.

If you read the story to the end and still think it's crap, then stop reading all together - it is pointless to spend time on something which you can't possibly appreciate!

PurpleYouko:
I read all of it and I thought that 90% of it was disjointed and just didn't hold together very well.

I saw several completely unwarrented sexual references (I counted about 5) which seem to be a staple of PJF's work.
The whole thing just seemed to flit about like a hover fly on a hot summer afternoon, staying in one place just long enough to start some kind of sequence then jumping inexplicably to a totally unrelated place.

I read a LOT of science fiction and fantasy and I really have no time for supposed writers like PJF. This may be the best of a bad bunch but it is still crap.

shvarz:
Can't beleive I hear this...

Well, let's ask someone else.  Maybe we'll gang up on you and you admit that you know shit about good sci-fi. :angry:

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