reading Time Enough For Love right now
Posted on 11/18/2018 6:15:19 PM PST by narses
I don’t like watching explanations of how movie special effects were done, and I don’t like detailed explanations of an authors psyche (I am glad to read he voted for Goldwater). I like Heinlein’s stories, enough said - Fairwitness.
I don’t like watching explanations of how movie special effects were done, and I don’t like detailed explanations of an authors psyche (I am glad to read he voted for Goldwater). I like Heinlein’s stories, enough said - Fairwitness.
Of course. has there even be a movie close to the actual literature?
The only one I know of that was ALMOST PERFECTLY CLOSE and followed the literature was ROAD TO PERDITION with Tom Hanks. Mendez bought the graphic novel and followed the scenes in the movie EXACTLY (almost) as what it shows in the graphic novel. I have a copy and it’s scarily close..
The article’s writer, Jeet Heer, is obviously disliking of Heinlein’s politics and this impairs his ability to comment effectively. Really, the only wonderful pieces of the article are the direct quotes from Heinlein.
Face it Jeet, Heinlein started out as a left wing liberal and decided it was no good for a person or society. When liberalism move even more to the left, he declined to go with it.
move=moved
Mine too.
How appropriate— a comic critic “wannabe” trashing an actual writer and visionary.
I will bet a buck that good old Jeet is in tune with the leftist fantasy gynocracy that claims to be the doorkeepers of science fiction.
This is a hit piece designed to remove remnants of Heinlein’s influence from leftist literary circles. This “purge trial” will be held for anyone else who straddles two worlds in an attempt to understand social phenomena with their critical faculties intact. Logic alone should decide all things.
Did you even read Starship Troopers? It was a typical Heinlein novel of his middle years that explored a segment of a speculative future society.
It is based upon the middle America values of Missouri and teaches responsibility for ones actions as well as the need for sacrifice in times when the homeland is in peril.
No matter what you soy boys think of it, this is a truer objective than the crazy years (also Heinlein predicted) that you seem to treasure.
The movies were entirely crap and did not, in the least sense, represent what the book was about.
reading Time Enough For Love right now
Jeet Heer is a pompous scumbag maderchood.
The writer seems to think it unnatural that Heinlein and science fiction outgrew the founding era when H. G. Wells’ radical socialism provided the dominant worldview for the genre. Moreover, what the author and other liberals miss as to both American politics and Heinlein is that the New Deal was sold by FDR and the Left as temporary measures necessitated by the unprecedented emergency of the Depression. With WW II won but the Cold War on and the Depression a fading memory, Americans — including Heinlein — naturally shifted Right and back toward traditional American political ideals. Heinlein’s idiosyncratic libertarian individualism was a better fit with American norms than his prior Leftism.
I read it. Clearly. Are you reaponding to what I quoted from the author?
I could not bring myself to actually click on a ‘New Republic’ link as much as I no longer can give a hit to the ‘National Review.’
Heinlein was the one who did not change, and in his own style, he chronicled the insane redefinition of our language and our culture with the advent of commercial network television. Society changed around him, and now he is to be reviled for frankly noticing out loud.
There was a SST 3?
Hear hear!
“Why attack Heinlein? Easy. There is no figure in literature more likely to lead a left-leaning Progressive parasite to the conservative side.”
The Pendragon version of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds very closely follows the book.
It's practically unwatchable.
Go figure...
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