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blahblah18 08-31-2005 02:49 AM

Stranger in a Strange Land
 
So I read it and want to discuss it, cuz it really is so much more then just the sexual revolution. Anyone?

whorlichan 08-31-2005 01:56 PM

RE: Stranger in a Strange Land
 
What did you think of it, first of all? Once I know that, I can discuss it with you. I adore Heinlein.

talisman 09-1-2005 06:49 PM

RE: Stranger in a Strange Land
 
At first I was like, ok... ok... whoa wtf heinlein is a perv.

But yeah... he has some unique ideas about religion and life/death.

whorlichan 09-1-2005 07:37 PM

RE: Stranger in a Strange Land
 
I don't think he's a pervert. He's got some ideas about sex and love that are different from traditional American values, but he upholds them pretty well. Not so much in SiaSL, because basically it's just one guy who everyone enjoys having sex with, but in his other books there's a lot more.

Try reading Time Enough For Love--there's a TON of what would be, to the mainstream public, incest and unnatural marriage practices. But incest is defined by religion, and by who you're not allowed to MARRY mostly, and not so much about who you can or cannot have sex with. And a lot of that is either ridiculous (some say a widow cannot marry her dead husband's brother because that is incest, but there's nothing different from the original marriage) or based on genetics (where the chances of having a defective baby are higher within close bloodlines, because of the chance of bad recessives doubling up more often than with people not related to each other). In fact, there's a lot of genetics in that book that I appreciated more when I had higher levels of biology.

Back to Stranger--I love Mike. He's just...innocent and worldly, all at the same time, and who can resist that?

xiron 09-1-2005 08:32 PM

RE: Stranger in a Strange Land
 
Amazing book. I had to read it for my Advanced 8th grade reading class last year. I loved it so much that i went out and bought my own copy. We had to do a variety of projects with it. One of mine was an infomercial for the book, where as incentive for buying it, I offered some of Mike's skin so that the reader could "grok" it better. Yep. Damn good book.

COBOL 09-6-2005 05:47 PM

RE: Stranger in a Strange Land
 
Stranger in a Strange land is also an Iron Maiden song

Anticrombie0909 09-10-2005 11:35 AM

RE: Stranger in a Strange Land
 
Excellent book. Made more sense than anything I've heard a single politician say in years. Everybody who reads should read this book.


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