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The one book that will always stand at the top of my list is Stranger In A Strange Land . It was the first Heinlein book I read and it fascinated me ... still does.
I loved the characters and the premise behind the book. It was a fantastic look into humanity...
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The latter is interesting because it's Heinlein's only chunky novel that isn't irredeemably was one of the first ....
Comes a distant second.
Stranger...
No question: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Of these statements as I read mor Heinlein.
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So I finally got a small amount of freetime before bed and so read Robert Heinlein: Starship Troopers.
The first thing that strikes me is the light-reading aspect of it - most books I'm so engrossed in that I don't notice the world around me, and can ...
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Heinlein had severe problems with the concept of popular reaction to Heinlein's dismay with the popular resistance towards the US role in the Vietnam war, an also it's to Heinlein's credit that....
An excellent take on the book, I think.
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 04:35 PM
He's got a weird kind of conservative-FDR-meets-Libertopia thing going on that, aside from the military ****-worship and juvenile bluster, comes off as very sensible and appealing
But I could never quite understand or pigeonhole...
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One thing to remember when reading Heinlein is: Heinlein is always or title protagonist.
PM, said:
The thing about Robert Heinlein, is he was all that and more… pro military in the mid popular and successful author.
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I'll start a list of books to choose from.
Starship Troopers
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Glory Road
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Am I getting close?
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I stopped reading Heinlein them were very memorable, and....
Then I went and financially sound enough to go on whatever advunture was required of them) .
Explain why):
Stranger was the first Heinlein novel I read - and I enjoyed it immensely.
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Hi,
I'm new to the group.
I'm a huge Heinlein fan, and I saw the post: "Best Robert Heinlein Novel." Wondered what you all thought his best story was.
Jock
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My favourite.
Heinlein, but Stranger in a Strange land was a thought provoking classic.
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To keep this seven year old thread alive, I figured I would register on these boards.
I have been a Heinlein fan for a while now and have recently purchased someone's collection so I am looking forward to making my way through 35+ Heinlein books, but ...
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Someone was talking about blow-away type stuff but Heinlein wasn't that, he was just consistently, and I became a voracious reader....
I just recently discovered Robert Heinlein a few months ago and so I am very early.
Section I came to.
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"Friday is a superbeing. Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world of chaotic ferocity and intrigue, she can think better, fight better, and make love better than any of the normal people around her." -The ...
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Why it went....
Touching stories Heinlein wrote - when Friday was kicked out of her Family for being a Living of the list?
For me it was one of the most emotionally touching stories Heinlein wrote - when Friday of Heinlein's very best.
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Series:
Heinlein's Future History
Methuselah's Children(1941)
The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950)
The Green Hills of Earth (1951)
Revolt in 2100 (1953)
Orphans of the Sky (1963)
The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Time Enough for Love:The Lives of Lazarus Long...
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Starting from the backdrop of the great panic that gripped the US around the Cuban Missile Crisis the book follows the activities of the Farnham family, when the unthinkable happens and the nuclear missiles fall in one massive blitz.
Of course as this...
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I haven't read every Heinlein but Farnham's Freehold is the one Heinlein book I started and tossed aside.
Heinlein published before '60 his "worst", though BTH strangely prefigures late-Heinlein).
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The never-published manuscript for science fiction
legend Robert Heinleins first novel FOR US, THE LIVING
was found in a Seattle garage by Heinlein scholar Robert
James not too long ago, and issued recently by Scribner.
The NY Times notes admiringly, ...
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It really is just kind of like Heinlein does....
Should be interesting to read Its a great book.
Actually, I think a lot of Heinlein's stuff of posthumus Heinlein turning up lately.
Should be an interesting read.
Cool What dwndrgn said.
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