Re: The Last Theorem



Edward McArdle wrote:
In article <gctnr4$e5$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jon Schild <jjs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would like to hear what others think about this book, Arthur C Clarke's last (with assistance from Frederik Pohl).

I didn't get into it, and gave up.

It had a main structure of the life of a university person with an
interest in mathematics (all of which, as it happened, I knew!). Each
chapter ended with an alien civilisation being "interested in us". But it
didn't hold my interest.

I didn't find it gripping or even fascinating, but I managed to finish it. It isn't his best work, certainly. But it isn't terrible either. It probably would never have been published without two major authors' names on the manuscript. I'm glad I got it from the library, not from a bookstore.


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The problem is not that the world is full of fools, it's that lightning isn't being distributed correctly.
-- Mark Twain

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