I grew up reading science fiction. I don't think my dad ever really understood what I liked about it. A while back, I bought a copy of Battlefield Earth and re

I grew up reading science fiction. I don't think my dad ever really understood what I liked about it. A while back, I bought a copy of Battlefield Earth and read it, just to see how bad it was (it was pretty bad). Anyway, my dad visits for a couple of weeks; while I'm out one day, he peruses my bookshelf and makes a (nice) honest effort to "get into" the type of fiction I've been reading since I was 8 or 9. Of course, he picks Battlefield Earth. His only comment, "It wasn't that good." I don't think he bought my explanation that I only had to just to see how terrible it was. I wish he'd picked Dune, or The Mote in God's Eye, or Ringworld, or The Left Hand of Darkness. Just about anything else, in fact :)