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In article <d6e3e898-cb88-4940-bf37-f7a355fc8de3@googlegroups.com>,
Ahasuerus  <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
>On Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 12:52:18 PM UTC-4, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> In article <ff39bd89-3ee4-4777-89b2-f1a0bcc49471@googlegroups.com>,
>> Ahasuerus  <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
>> >On Monday, June 4, 2018 at 12:22:54 AM UTC-4, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> >> Species C1764: Book 1 of the Eridani Series 
>> >> by C.G. William  
>> >> https://amzn.to/2sugrsM
>
>[snip-snip]
>
>> >> And yet.  This book seems to be completely unedited.
>> >[snip-snip]
>> >
>> >I went in with my expectations adjusted based on your review yet I was
>> >still shocked by how bad it was. It read like a raw transcript of an R.
>> >Lionel Fanthorpe dictation run through a voice recognition program. It
>> 
>> Let me pause to admire that..
>> 
>> >took me forever to finish this very short book because I had to re-parse/
>> >re-punctuate (and, more often than not, restructure) every sentence. If
>> >not for your review and the book's length, I would have dropped it after
>> >the first two pages.
>> 
>> What can I say?  My filters seem to be set differently than yours.
>> I certainly enjoyed the book more than say, something like
>> 
>> 	_Starcruiser Polaris: Blood of Patriots_
>> 	by Richard Tongue 
>> 	http://amzn.to/2qnehNw
>> 
>> which is also an indie space opera, and comptently edited.  And dull.
>> 
>> So, was the gain/pain ratio too high to continue, or no?
>
>Well, it depends. If I ever find myself stuck in an infinite _Groundhog
>Day_/_Mother of Learning_ situation -- which, of course, would make
>working on the ISFDB impractical and let me catch up on my reading -- I
>may try volume 2 after finishing a few million other books and stories.

Gotcha!  So, real soon then..
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RI May 2018 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-04 04:22 +0000
  Re: RI May 2018 Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2018-06-04 11:02 -0700
    Re: RI May 2018 ted@hotrod.bn02868.foressc.wayport.net (Ted Nolan) - 2018-06-04 23:21 +0000
    Re: RI May 2018 "Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> - 2018-08-18 20:08 +0000
      Re: RI May 2018 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-08-19 02:20 +0000
  Re: RI May 2018 Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-06-04 14:39 -0700
  Re: RI May 2018 D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-06-05 12:50 +0000
    Re: RI May 2018 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-05 17:39 +0000
  Re: RI May 2018 Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2018-06-07 09:21 -0700
    Re: RI May 2018 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-07 16:52 +0000
      Re: RI May 2018 Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2018-06-07 14:20 -0700
        Re: RI May 2018 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-07 21:25 +0000
          Re: RI May 2018 Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2018-06-07 14:56 -0700
      Re: RI May 2018 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-06-07 16:46 -0500
        Re: RI May 2018 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-06-08 13:58 +0000
          Re: RI May 2018 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-08 17:01 +0000
            Re: RI May 2018 Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2018-06-08 10:30 -0700
              Re: RI May 2018 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-08 17:34 +0000
  Re: RI May 2018 tsbrueni@gmail.com - 2018-08-19 07:52 -0700
    Re: RI May 2018 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-08-19 16:32 +0000

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