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

["David Hall" <airsafe1@comcast.net>]

One of the warnings is to read the paperback version, not the longer,
posthumously released "original" version which RH had cut back seriously. 
Dave

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From: uupoly-l-bounces+airsafe1=comcast.net@uupa.org
[mailto:uupoly-l-bounces+airsafe1=comcast.net@uupa.org] On Behalf Of Ned
Sudborough
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:11 PM
To: uupoly-l@uupa.org
Subject: [UUPoly-L] Stranger In A Strange Land



A few months back, enough discussion of "Stranger"  brought me to read the
book.
As I was once told, it was "a founding document" for polys.   
Considered separately
from that importance, I found the book  longer than necessary, tedious to
read,  stylistically coarse,  with frequently mentioned characters
uncharacterized and with several chapters
  interpolated as humor that undermine the seriousness with which we might
consider the book's separate ideas and his whole thesis as well.
Encouraging people to read the book calls for some warnings, also.

Ned

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