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by <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla">cdogzilla</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/scifi"  title="scifi">scifi</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/overrated"  title="overrated">overrated</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2005 03:00:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_3534_1528</guid><dc:creator>cdogzilla</dc:creator><category>scifi</category><category>overrated</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running Wild]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/cdogzilla</link><description><![CDATA[Ballard&#39;s great, but this one is underwhelming.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla">cdogzilla</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/scifi"  title="scifi">scifi</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/overrated"  title="overrated">overrated</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/ballard"  title="ballard">ballard</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:43:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_8576_1528</guid><dc:creator>cdogzilla</dc:creator><category>scifi</category><category>overrated</category><category>ballard</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Foundation Trilogy]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/cdogzilla</link><description><![CDATA[Again, just never could take Asimov&#39;s prose. Tons of dialogue punctuated by not particularly evocative &#39;he did this, he did that, this happened&#39; like he was rattling the stuff off as fast he could. Which, evidently, he was.  Not without value and certainly influential, but nothing I&#39;d want to read again. 
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla">cdogzilla</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/scifi"  title="scifi">scifi</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/classic"  title="classic">classic</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/overrated"  title="overrated">overrated</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/asimov"  title="asimov">asimov</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:48:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_8483_1528</guid><dc:creator>cdogzilla</dc:creator><category>scifi</category><category>classic</category><category>overrated</category><category>asimov</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/cdogzilla</link><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ll take Heinlein over Asimov anyday, if we&#39;re picking Grandmasters.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla">cdogzilla</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/scifi"  title="scifi">scifi</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/overrated"  title="overrated">overrated</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:34:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_8469_1528</guid><dc:creator>cdogzilla</dc:creator><category>scifi</category><category>overrated</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neuromancer]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/cdogzilla</link><description><![CDATA[I know it&#39;s considered &#39;the cyberpunk classic.&#39; Still underwhelmed. Never understood the popularity of this one.  It&#39;s the writing.  Like Gibson read his Dashiell Hammett, but didn&#39;t understand what made him great.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla">cdogzilla</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/cyberpunk"  title="cyberpunk">cyberpunk</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/scifi"  title="scifi">scifi</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/overrated"  title="overrated">overrated</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:40:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_765_1528</guid><dc:creator>cdogzilla</dc:creator><category>cyberpunk</category><category>scifi</category><category>overrated</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bright Lights, Big City]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/cdogzilla</link><description><![CDATA[The Palahniuk of the 80s?  A critical and popular success with virtually no relevance?  I haven&#39;t read it since 1987 so I can&#39;t say for sure how I feel about it now. I liked it then.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla">cdogzilla</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/overrated"  title="overrated">overrated</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/pop"  title="pop">pop</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/underappreciated"  title="underappreciated">underappreciated</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:43:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_8408_1528</guid><dc:creator>cdogzilla</dc:creator><category>overrated</category><category>pop</category><category>underappreciated</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speaker for the Dead]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/cdogzilla</link><description><![CDATA[Overrated.  I simply can&#39;t abide Carr.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla">cdogzilla</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/scifi"  title="scifi">scifi</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/overrated"  title="overrated">overrated</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:49:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_865_1528</guid><dc:creator>cdogzilla</dc:creator><category>scifi</category><category>overrated</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lolita]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/cdogzilla</link><description><![CDATA[I know people love it but for the life of me I just don&#39;t get.  Is the prose really that great?  While not horrible, Lolita gets my vote for one of the most overrated novels of all time.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla">cdogzilla</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/overrated"  title="overrated">overrated</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/boring"  title="boring">boring</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:33:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_808_1528</guid><dc:creator>cdogzilla</dc:creator><category>overrated</category><category>boring</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ender's Game]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/cdogzilla</link><description><![CDATA[As an impressionable 12 yr. old, I was taken in by Card.  But hasn&#39;t everyone know for years what Ender&#39;s Game is really about and what a complete fascist Card is?  I&#39;m surprised by his continuing popularity.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla">cdogzilla</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/overrated"  title="overrated">overrated</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/cdogzilla/fascism"  title="fascism">fascism</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2005 21:58:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_346_1528</guid><dc:creator>cdogzilla</dc:creator><category>overrated</category><category>fascism</category></item></channel></rss>
