🚀 go-pugleaf

Mssr Steven Hardy enlightens us with the view that Julian May is in fact
very pulpy, but he loves it anyway.

Whew! An honest view on UseNet - what will happen next? Thanks for that
Steven, it's refreshing to see someone defending their tastes for their
own worth without retreating to a high moral ground. i personally can't
stand pulp fiction as a rule - IMHO there are too many books in the world
to read without wasting hours of ones life on mental wallpaper. IMHO
again.

i hated the _Belgariad_ with a vengence, as one could only hate a bloated,
poorly written juvenile novel. Iain Banks "Culture" novels, grand
whiz-bang space opera at it's largestest (if you know what i mean) are a
particular weakness of mine. (Which i explain away by saying "But they're
so well written ...". So there.) Piers "Tree-killer" Anthony, i have
experienced but once (Chton) and have no desire to return to. Rudy Rucker
writes some bizarre pulpy stuff, which is redeemed by the incredible
strangeness of it all.

So what makes a _good_ pulp novel? Disposability? Ease of production?
Beats me.


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