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  <title><![CDATA[Gray Lensman (The Lensman Series, Book 4)]]></title>
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  <read_at>Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue May 26 13:10:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Lensman series as a whole is a kind of archaeological dig into a landfill, except probably without toxic outgassing.  You have compressed layers of awesome, then quaint silliness, and then just painfully awkward moments.<br/><br/>The awesome (important:  this is &quot;awesome&quot; in the summ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55673870">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Lensman saga doesn't cut it for me, so I gave it up towards the end of Gray Lensman. While it has some interesting plots, they're too spread out and the space in between is a waste of time.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The continuing lensman saga. It is interesting to watch the introduction of &quot;new&quot; scientific concepts into these books as they were developed. This one adds the concept of the positron which had just been discovered in 1932 a few years before this book was first published. Its kind of funn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12890562">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[See my review of First Lensman.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[from Library Thing list]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[borrowed from rob:  The continuing lensman saga. It is interesting to watch the introduction of &quot;new&quot; scientific concepts into these books as they were developed. This one adds the concept of the positron which had just been discovered in 1932 a few years before this book was first publish...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25004447">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes, Doc Smith is a man of his time.  Doubtless, people will find his books cheesy and cliched, not to mentioned sexist.  Of course, he *invented* the cliches and his women characters were still decades ahead of their time, but never mind.<br/><br/>Still, few do pulp sci-fi better than Smith.  The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20032988">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18941045">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The things you can do when you learn to manipulate inertia...  This is probably the grittiest of the Lensman books thus far, with the hero having to go to some dark places to track down Boskone.  And as much as I've come to dislike the &quot;he needed killing&quot; thought in characters, at least th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18941045">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2526919">
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 29 07:53:40 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[When the Lensman series is really rolling it's incredibly exciting and imaginative... silly writing and outdated science either don't matter or even add to it in a strange way.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Slightly different - it was a fresher breath in the series, for me, anyway.]]></body>
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    <review id="4885447">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got 50 pages into it and realized that I had no idea what was going on.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The weakest of the series.<br/>   <br/>   ]]></body>
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