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In article <mtan-250193144921@maureen.cen.uiuc.edu> mtan@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Maureen Tan) writes:
>
>P.S. to Heinlein worshippers:  IMHO, some of his later stuff would
>have had substantially more  impact if some editor had had the guts (or
>the authority) to say to the great man, "Look, I *know* you're famous now,
> but that doesn't mean everything that comes from your pen  is sacred.
>Let's  cut some of the philosophical  musing, and
> tighten this  plot up a little, OK?"   [Please, folks, no flames!
> It's just an opinion!]

I was brought up reading Heinlein.  He was almost the only author I read for 
a while.  I read everything he published and I'd just like to say...

I agree with you totally.  In his latter years he wrote some very verbose
rubbish.  I read Friday but didn't really enjoy it and haven't been able to 
complete any of his other recent works.  I re-read another of his books
recently (Time Enough For Love I think) which I remembered as a really good 
fast moving story.  On re-reading I realised my mind had edited the book
and only retained the plot.  I now found the book slow and tedious and - 
again I didn't complete reading it.  There was already an enormous amount of 
redundancy in his books way back then.

On re-reading I was also using a politically mature as well as critical mind 
and realised that I could no longer stomach Heinleins political views.  The 
things he was slipping into my poor unsuspecting young mind.  Oh, it makes 
my flesh crawl to think about it.

Now _that_ will probably generate flames...

Derek "Have Flamesuit, Will Travel" Tearne


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