I love the Lensman series - as long as I don't think about it too much. Great sweeping adventure in space, whole civilizations (well, Civilization itself, to use a Smith-ism) at risk... but the massive "one part is evil, all is evil" aspects, where entire worlds (probably full of innocent bystanders) are destroyed is, if you think about it too much, pretty horrible. And yet, I still re-read them periodically, just for the fun of it.
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