but I just went to Amazon and ordered one!
Posted on 11/16/2013 9:33:41 PM PST by narses
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but I just went to Amazon and ordered one!
Just ordered the paperback at Amazon for $8.00. Hard to go wrong at that price unless it’s utterly horrible.
I can grok it
“But he was also sympathetic to occult beliefs. His second wife, Leslyn, his partner during his political and early science fiction careers, was a practicing witch, and he believed in life after death. He made a pact with several friends that whichever of them died first would get in touch with the others from beyond.”
So did Heinlein think ‘life after death’ was an ‘occult belief’, or does the author think it is?
RAH did.
I don’t get the comparison with Forrest Gump, unless it’s the early association with liberal women with drug problems.
I refute Mr. Patterson’s biographical exercise of one of the most gifted writers of Science Fiction known!
I have in my possession a copy of Robert A. Heinlein’s, “Expanded Universe”, published in 1980. It includes the man’s very own words about the heirs of Patrick Henry, pragmatic patriotism, the first literary piece that would be found in today’s “prepper publications”, and his trip to the Soviet Union - as measured from an American citizen’s viewpoint, for contrast.
There is a large leap, from being a fan, to concocting a biography, on a deceased literary figure.
In the case with writing about Mr. Heinlein, if one should be of the generation born as of, or after The Fall of The Berlin Wall, there is a complete shift in the psyche, that, I believe, cannot be bridged. There is also the internal appreciation, that only present and former military members can fathom, when they read his particular writings, that those who have not served, nor desire to appreciate the U.S. military ‘community’, cannot.
Concur completely.
Just how in the hell does Heinlein’s life even remotely compare to a mentally retarded Gump? What an insult to this great writer.
Nuttin’ wrong with sculpting or painting nekkid women... so long as they look more like Olivia Wilde and less like that disgusting slob Lena Dunham.
Thanks for the ping, Bendy! As you know RAH is my favorite author. I met him once...he made me blush by talking about my red hair.
Meanwhile, I’m putting this one on my Christmas list.
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I first started reading his works in 1969. I continued for the next 25 years or more finding anything he’d written and devouring it.
Unfortunately, in his last years I believe his beliefs (and oddities) took hold of him and he was at best, tolerable even though somewhat erratic in my estimation.
His ideas about sex were avante garde in the early years but there were some very serious implications in one or two of his character lines that smacked of incest.
While SIASL is considered his most widely known work, But, I preferred ‘Moon is a Harsh Mistress’, ‘Time Enough for Love’ and ‘I will Fear No Evil’. His last books (about 4-5 of them) I did not like much at all.
"Robert Heinlein" 20.5" x 24" oil on paper on panel © 2009 Donato Giancola
In consideration of the coming schism, I am rereading “Friday” to relearn the North American divisions Heinlein predicted.
I tried to read “The Cat That Walks Through Walls” but quit 2/3 of the way through. His latter books got bogged down in dialogue that accomplished little but increasing the page count.
I may be provoked to dig up and read the Lazarus Long books. I’m dreading it because the want to is barely balanced by the too lazy. After all, I have been there and done that, more than once before
very poorly written. Hard to follow.
One of my all time favorite Sci-Fi writers.
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