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| Princess_Ivy Quote | Reply | | Robert Hienlen posted on: 8/21/2005 11:59:29 PM He is a sci-fi legened, and yet, how accessible do you find his work. i've a huge list to work through of his books, i've tried two so far, the puppet masters and beyond this horizon. i've found the first to fast paced and the second to slow. |
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IceDrake
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replied on: 8/22/2005 8:07:43 PM I read Have Spacesuit Will Travel. I didn't like it too much. |
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Princess_Ivy
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replied on: 8/23/2005 7:50:45 AM *whisper mode on* i'm not to keen on what i've read either 
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zachaustlily
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replied on: 8/24/2005 1:51:43 AM Robert Heinlein. Well, he's one of those Hit or Miss authors. Some of his works are classic and others are just Blah. I personally enjoy all his books about the Howard Foundation Families. The Past Through Tomorrow, To Sail Beyound the Sunset, Number of the Beast, Methuselah's Children. I love Number of the Beast and have read it several times. I don't usually like his early work, it was written for teen boys fascinated by space after all. Now one of his most highly acclaimed works just drives me crazy, Stranger From a Strange Land, I just could not connect with that book at all. |
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Tessadragon
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replied on: 8/24/2005 10:58:03 AM When I went to New York on a college trip and didn't want to see the basketball game at Madison Square Gardens, I was lucky that a psychology teacher offered to take me to the bookstore, knowing that I was looking for a book that hadn't been released in England. At the Barnes and Noble (god, i loved the size of that bookstore!) he showed me the Robert Heinlein books and I bought a Stranger in a Strange Land and the Philip K Dick reader. So as to what you say of how accessible the books are, the store showed a pretty big range of books by those 2 authors who are apparently quite similar in style. Have you read Philip K Dick? Would you agree that they are similar in style? Sorry, I didn't mean to carry on for so much! Tessadragon |
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Princess_Ivy
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replied on: 8/26/2005 8:09:50 AM sorry, i meant how readable to you fine him. I tend to trawl charity shops and boot sales for books and don't have a problem finding things. Did you enjoy stranger in a strange land? And yes, i've read Do androids dream of electric sheep by dick, i found it very simplified, after watching the film first, with all of the hidden meanings and suptexts of that, the book seemed very niave to me. i've some others in my reading pile at the moment and some more heinliens as well. i'll have to see how they go
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IceDrake
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Robert Hienlen
replied on: 10/12/2005 11:02:03 PM Bio for Hienlein Here |
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steve12553
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replied on: 5/7/2006 12:04:12 AM I started reading Heinlein when I was fairly young. Someone said some of his stories were for teenage boys, I read some of them when I was one. Some of his books, like Stranger in a Strange Land were way ahead of their time in the 1960s. Now their an odd combination of overliberal and dated at the same time. I think what it boils down to is that RH express what he thought ought to change and expressed it like it had. Some ideas he was right about others he was very wrong. If your the type of reader that I am who can take the times of the writer into consideration, read it for what it's worth and go along for the ride, he's well worth reading. Other wise you will probably have to pick and chose. He went several different directions in his writing life. |
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