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- From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
- Subject: Re: My trip out West (long)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.172641.5574@igor.tamri.com>
- Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
- References: <zOrls*p01@prolix.apana.org.au> <1993Jan25.015916.17175@igor.tamri.com> <1k037tINNjgh@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 17:26:41 GMT
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- In article <1k037tINNjgh@lynx.unm.edu> baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
- writes:
- > 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). Starship Troopers, Glory Road, Stranger
- in a Strange Land, the Past through Tomorrow anthology...all worth a read.
- His earlier quality just makes the later crap that much sadder...
-
- don
-