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Title: Great ideas, shame about the books
Review: I loved these books as a kid. Reading them now, I am confronted with the fact that Burroughs was a very poor writer, with little literary ability and a poor ear for dialogue. What he did have was an imagination, and the concept of Caspak- a place where evolution happens to the individual is a fascinating one. However, Burroughs' leaden style weighs it down, and the fact that Burroughs was clearly an obsessive racist (a subhuman race is described as 'negroid') makes this a hard book to read. A rare case where the book is worse than the film (those who have seen it will know what I mean!) I not with amusement that this is a large print edition, which, combined with Burroughs' amateur scribbling, would make it seem like a kids book.
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