[Elsie]

Robert A. Heinlein's beliefs started liberal ...

And then there was L Ron Hubbard...

[C19fan]

Each book in the series was inspired by and loosely based on a different literary classic: Twilight on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, New Moon on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Eclipse on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and Breaking Dawn on a second Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.[16]

I have read Austen and all the Bronte sisters and you are no Austen or Bronte.

[antiRepublicrat]

And then there was L Ron Hubbard...

I've read some of his fiction (well, the fiction he labeled as fiction and not religion), and the Scientology isn't there as strong as some people let on. It certainly doesn't work as a recruitment tool. He's also nowhere near as good as Heinlein.

Ah, memories coming back. Hubbard's books were mainly just a dumb good ride, while I actually learned things from Heinlein. It was one of his books where Lazarus Long was burning cash back behind his bank and almost got lynched for it where I first learned about monetary policy, and how a greedy, ignorant populace using the power of government can screw it up.