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I avoid anything John Ringo has written in the last few years. He started out his (still short) career strong, but has veered far off into polemic (some of his stuff makes Tom Clancy look like a flaming lefty), and that most certainly is not my cup of tea. (His recent "Tuloriad" had the core of a great book, but had too many pointless characters tossed in from other books in the universe, and he added a thoroughly insulting Afterword.)
And RAH's The Cat Who Walks Through Walls... WTF? Maybe I just haven't read enough RAH to appreciate it properly, or maybe it really was a very pointless, plotless, book.
And I agree that Clarke/Gentry stuff is best used as a firestarter. Cradle was unmitigated awfulness and the Gentry/Clarke Rama books made me want to gag.
SirWired
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