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- From: Blair.Haworth@launchpad.unc.edu (Blair Haworth)
- Subject: Re: My trip out West (long)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.210744.20281@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- References: <1jq86qINN4t6@titan.ucs.umass.edu> <zOrls*p01@prolix.apana.org.au> <1993Jan25.015916.17175@igor.tamri.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:07:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.015916.17175@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
- >In article <zOrls*p01@prolix.apana.org.au> dac@prolix.apana.org.au
- >(Andrew Clayton) writes:
- >>"Her nipples went 'spung'."
- >> Number of the Beast.
- >> Robert A. Heinlein.
- >
- >Whoah Dac, you're scaring me now.
- >
- >Gun control politics are one things but, if you were to say you liked the
- >later (after 1973, excluding "Friday") Heinlein, you'd REALLY scare me.
- >He had some good stuff to say early on but most of what he wrote after
- >"Time Enough for Love" was the confused gibberish of a trepanized, horny
- >old man. Probably under the influence of animal tranquilizers.
-
- Of course, the modal peever (or is that mean standard peeviant?) can still
- find a lot to like in late Heinlein: he was, after all, foursquare in
- favor of firearms, large powerful vehicles and gratuitous aardvarking to
- the end, and contemptuous of bureaucrats, and incompetents. Shitfire, the
- last half of _Expanded Universe_ is pretty much a solid three-hundred-page
- peeve.
-
- Peeve: Still, the last few novels _are_ hard to take if you read them
- front-to-back.
-
- !Peeve: Bad Heinlein still beats hell outta no Heinlein.
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