----- Original Message ----- From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BRIN-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 8:08 PM Subject: Re: Starship Trooper
> on 9/12/02 1:57 am, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Sorry, backwards. I meant that I didn't care much for his late stuff, > > which had incest as a good idea. I was going to write things one way and > > wrote it another, and inverted my point. :-) > > So what do you think of _Stranger in a Strange Land_ (1961) - and I haven't > read the unexpurgated version of (1990) ? > When I first read it over 30 years ago, I liked it a lot but didn't rate it up with "Moon is a Harsh Mistress." I haven't reread it in ages, and don't feel a great desire to. I don't think it is total dross, but I would reread "Citizen of the Galaxies" before that. Thinking back, I believe it is mixed. If you accept the premise, the story isn't a bad one, until the weak ending. It has a lot of stuff going on and had the potential to be great. But, it missed that mark. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
