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- From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
- Subject: RAH peeves (Was: My trip out West (long))
- In-Reply-To: donb@igor.tamri.com's message of Tue, 26 Jan 93 17:26:41 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:18:25 GMT
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- Don**2 writes:
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- <> Thanks, Don. All this time I thought I was just "missing"
- <>something from some of Heinlein's stuff. After I read "Number of
- <>the Beast" I was just left thinking "Huh?". At least I now know
- <>that this was RAH's fault, not mine.
-
- <Yep, the dude lost it after a certain point. I'd say anything up to and
- <including 1973's Time Enough for Love is worth reading (with the possible
- <exception of I Will Fear No Evil).
-
- Eh, I dunno about 'Time For Enuff Lust'; portions of it
- would have made pretty good novellas, other portions were
- pure trash...and not well written trash, either.
-
- ObRAHPeeve: his tendency towards logorria in later years.
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- 'Eye Will Fear No Weevils' would have been a great novella;
- too bad RAH decided it should rival "War and Peace" in length.
- The obsex seemed quite forced.
-
- ObRAHPeeve: his rather forced and stilted obsex
-
- One guy I know gave up on RAH in the mid '60's, when
- "Farnham's Freehold" was serialized in either 'Analog'
- or 'Galaxy' (probably Galaxy); in his words, "I lost
- interest in the story right at the point where the 'hero's'
- daughter died giving birth to her father's child...somehow,
- I no longer gave a rancid ratfart about any of the characters."
- <this is accompanied by a pained expression>
-
- <Starship Troopers, Glory Road, Stranger
- <in a Strange Land,
-
- One strange fact; RAH stopped writing "Stranger" to
- do "Starship Troopers", then finished "Stranger"...
- there are people who react with total disbelief to
- the idea that the same guy wrote both novels.
-
- ObArtPeeve: artists who blatently live on their laurels...
-