Re: [UUPoly-L] Stranger In A Strange Land

[SESpruiell@aol.com]

Robert Heinlein is my second favorite author after  Octavia Butler.
 
I read "Stranger In A Strange Land" in High School in  the late Sixties (Not 
quite as far back as when you were in high school  Ed.)  I remember the book 
having quite an effect upon me, but I don't  exactly remember the details of 
the book.  I will definitely read it  again.
 
I have read "Time Enough For Love" several times and  the character Lazarus 
Long is one of my personal heroes.  Many of  Heinlein's characters recur in 
other works, such as,  "Methusalah's Children", "The Cat Who Walks Through 
Walls", "The Number Of  The Beast", "To Sail Beyond The Sunset",  and others.  
Heinlein does indeed seem to advocate a poly  lifestyle.
 
I have not reconciled myself with Heinlein's views  on incest.  The character 
Lazarus appears to feel that incest is  okay.  So doe's Lazarus' mother and 
lover,  Maureen Johnson,  in "To Sail Beyond The Sunset."  
The universal consensus is that these characters evoke  Heinlein's personal 
views on the subject.  I don't share those  sentiments.  Heinlein also has a 
disturbing belief in eugenics and may even  have been racist (as in White 
Supremacist) in his personal thinking.   Despite these disturbing tendencies, I 
still enjoy his writing.
 
Selah Eric Spruiell
 
 
In a message dated 8/19/2008 12:01:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
"Edward  Blanchette" _ejjabla@comcast.net_ (mailto:ejjabla@comcast.net)  
writes:
Subject:  Re: [UUPoly-L] Stranger in a Strange Land

I just have to get that book  and read it, see what it is that so startled 
you and some others!  BTW,  Harry Truman was President when I was 18-19. 
Long  time ago.  :-)

 




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