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If You Only Ever Read One Book by (Insert Name)
Vic Wertz wrote:

I haven't, but John Pelan reviewed it in Amazing 603. He gave it two stars out of five, and ultimately recommends it primarily as a "literary curiosity for the Heinlein fan."

-Vic.
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Vic,

I finally opened the book and read it over three days. I'd say 2 stars is pretty accurate. I do cut RAH some slack since it was his first book and all. But, I enjoyed it very much as a literary curiosity, and learned a lot, I think, about the author for having read it.
If you were ever forced in philosophy class to read one of those stories in which the characters argue in order to prove the author's point, then you have a good idea what this book is like.
I think the most interesting parts were the Forward nad Afterword.
When's the last time you had a Fatburger?

Fatburger = yummy

In-N-Out = even yummy-er!
Three Word Game, Anybody?

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If You Only Ever See One (Insert Name) Movie

If you only see one (non-StarWars) film...
With Harrison Ford, see Witness
With Mark Hamill, see Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
With Carrie Fisher, see the Blues Brothers
Directed by George Lucas, see American Graffiti
With James Earl Jones, see Field of Dreams
With Alec Guinness, see Murder by Death
If You Only Ever Read One Book by (Insert Name)
Troy Taylor wrote:

I'm a big fan of Footfall, too. Gotta love an invasion of Elephant people. In fact, techno-thriller writer Tom Clancy also counts it as one of his favorite sci-fi books.

But I'm sticking to my guns: The Mote in God's Eye was a landmark novel.

Those little alien gremlins in "Mote" frightened the heck out of me! Sheesh! I didn't know Clancy read SciFi...

Did you ever read Frederik Pohl? The HeeChee books were excellent.

But I have even more:
Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates
Dean Koontz - The Watchers (great guy; does signings in Anaheim for almost every new book)
Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time
Caleb Carr - The Alienist
Piers Anthony - Juxtaposition
Fritz Lieber - Ill Met in Lankhmar

By the way, I just discovered a Robert Heinlein book at the store which claims to be his 'long lost first novel': "For Us the Living". I've never heard of it, so I picked it up. Anybody read it?
If You Only Ever Read One Book by (Insert Name)

What a tragic idea, to only read one book by any of these people... but I'll weigh in, never the less:

Michael Chrichton - Jurassic Park
Larry Niven - Footfall (his best collaboration, absolutely IMHO)
Robert Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (I did love Stranger in a Strange Land, but it's not representative of his other work... so I went with the one I'd recommend to others)
Ann McAffrey - Dragonflight
Stephen R Donaldson - Lord Foul's Bane
Stephen King - the Stand

Great topic!

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