This sci-fi counterculture novel espouses libertarian philosophies including free love and, more generally, the idea that morality is whatever the individual wants it to be. The main character, Martian-raised human Valentine Michael Smith, claims "Thou art God!"I read this at, if I recall, age fourt...
[These notes were made in 1991:]. I read Stranger in a Strange Land as a teenager, altho' not, as many other Alberta teenagers did, as part of the high school curriculum. I remember it, along with Heinlein's other work Time Enough For Love (which I preferred) as being sexually informative and there...
This book has the dubious distinction of being the only book I threw against a wall and never finished. There have been a few that have taken air after I finished reading them, but there hasn't been another mid-book reading-ending chuck. Some of this is historical: both obligatory book finishing and...
Mind-blowing in high school, but after all these years I've come to be annoyed by what I think of as the Heinlein shtick, which mostly enables men to have lots of adoring women around for whim-catering.
Nowadays, most people seem to either love or hate Heinlein. Many read his children's books like Podkayne from Mars, Red Planet and The Rolling Stones, enjoyed the adventure and moved on to his adult stuff just to get more. The politics, sexism and lack of depth went over their young heads. To them, ...
Robert Heinlein was a good friend of AI legend Marvin Minsky (check out his people page! It's interesting!), and I've heard that they often used to chat about AI, science-fiction, and the connections between them. Here's a conversation I imagine them having some time between 1961, when Stranger in a...
A human child brought up by Martians returns to earth as an adult. I really wanted to like this book, but it just went on and on for about 200 pages too many (out of 500). The book concept and story gets 5 stars, but the dragging out of the story earns it 3 stars in my mind. I'm so tired of it that ...
Reviews of books read in the past:This was meaningful to me when I was an early adolescent, and my rating reflects that meaningfulness rather than the rating I'd give it now as a more sophisticated reader. Stranger in a Strange Land opened a world of science fiction to me (it being one of the first ...
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