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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
It depends on what your goals are. Heinlein was one of the important influences shaping the field as it exists today. If you just want to read SF, and have particular sorts of things you like, you don't have to read anybody in particular, beyond those who scratch your particular itch.
If your goal it to be knowledgeable about SF as a whole and claim any particular knowledge of it, and you haven't read Heinlein, expect people who do know something about the field to point at you and laugh.
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I would hope people would be more polite than that.
But this is the Internet...
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You found certain viewpoints off putting. That doesn't mean that others will, and it doesn't even mean they're wrong. (They may be wrong, but that fact that you didn't like them is not proof of anything save that you didn't like them.)
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Yeah
I find his viewpoints off putting. That was why
I would say put certain of his books in the NEVER read category. I mean, isn't that the point of this thread? Everyone is expressing their opinions about certain authors and books, but that does not mean we all have the gospel on what is good or bad.
And I think I mis-spoke. I don't simply find some of his viewpoints off-putting, I find them completely unconscionable. But we already discussed that earlier in this thread.
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Too bad, because grok has slipped into more general parlance, and may be used by people who have no idea of its provenance.
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Totally agree! More people should realize it's an annoying word from an annoying book with annoying ideologies.
-Pie