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

["Married Lesbians" <marriedlesbians@gmail.com>]

You could say the same thing about the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, and the
bhagavad gita.  Also all newspapers, news shows, current television shows,
and 99% of the conversations we have in our daily lives.  As Heinlein wrote
in one scene.  Be a fair witness.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:17 AM, David Hall <airsafe1@comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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> 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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