First Lensman

Once they spent time explaining how obviously women couldn't have a Lens
and started using descriptions like “The men of the Galactic Patrol were widely known to be men”, I started having trouble continuing to read it.
So while I want to read the series because it is famous in the history of SF, I can only read one a year.

The best part was when our hero was on Pluto trying to talk to a truly alien being.
The author portrayed the alien as 4 dimensional and how it kept changing shape and color.
This was very interesting specially given that most aliens look a lot like humans or very nearly human.

I think I will go off to read a Danny Dunn book to clear my head.

For the most part, I was bored or annoyed with the characters, the story, and the writing style. I like Conway “Spud “ Costigan and dislike all the others. I missed the neat scientific ideas from the earlier book and found the magical nonsense mind science for the lens to be a dissapointment.

For some reason the 80's style of EXTREME was just tiring this time around, unlike last time when it reached Flash Gordon heights of silliness. I will continue the series, but only for the historical perspective.