I just started reading Stranger In A Strange Land for the first time (I know), and I'm sure I'm supposed to have strong feelings about it, but what are they again? (No spoilers!)
Xander: Am I right, Giles? Giles: I'm almost certain you're not. Though, to be fair, I haven't been
listening.
'Sleeper'
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Jesse - Jun 18, 2019 5:51:03 am PDT #25396 of 28197
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fred Pete - Jun 18, 2019 6:01:29 am PDT #25397 of 28197
Ann, that's a ferret.
Jesse, I haven't read Stranger or any other Heinlein in a very long time. But my memory is that Stranger has the typical Heinlein strengths and weaknesses -- strong and well-developed ideas, interesting and eccentric male characters, female characters with little more dimension than Playboy bunnies.
-t - Jun 18, 2019 6:07:04 am PDT #25398 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Well, you get to add "grok" to your vocabulary, if it wasn't already there. I think you are past the target age to be really wowed by the philosophy. Parts of it are, of course, enraging, but not as much as some of his stuff. Or that's how I remember it from reading it 30+ years ago
Jesse - Jun 18, 2019 6:30:10 am PDT #25399 of 28197
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think you are past the target age to be really wowed by the philosophy.
That sounds right!
OK, great -- I couldn't remember if it was now supposed to be awesome or terrible or what.
Toddson - Jun 18, 2019 8:09:34 am PDT #25400 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I read it when it was new and I think I probably was in the target range. I remember enjoying it then; in retrospect, yes, it had the typical Heinlein strengths and weaknesses. Not as bad as some of his things, though.
Beverly - Jun 18, 2019 10:52:29 am PDT #25401 of 28197
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
How much did I hate that T.Stark's new Jarvis was named Friday? I may have missed an element of sarcasm, but since I hated Heinlein's Friday, I hated Stark's as a matter of course.
Connie Neil - Jun 18, 2019 10:54:18 am PDT #25402 of 28197
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I figured Tony's Friday was named after His Girl Friday.
Toddson - Jun 18, 2019 11:01:20 am PDT #25403 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Or Robinson Crusoe's Friday ... as they say, he's the only person who ever had everything done by Friday.
Beverly - Jun 18, 2019 11:05:30 am PDT #25404 of 28197
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I dismissed Crusoe's Friday because girl voice--which made me associate Heinlein's Friday. I never thought of His Girl--which I shall do henceforward, thanks!
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 18, 2019 12:47:00 pm PDT #25405 of 28197
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think I'd have liked it better if instead of being helpfully Irish Friday had spoken with a Mid-Atlantic accent and sassed Stark back.