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Originally Posted by DDHarriman
Hi
Amazing how these forums are great!
This talking about Heinlein and the personal (so opposite sometimes) opinions about the book is wonderful, and if I can not less agree with the mazzeltjes “…Farnhams Freehold is a racist piece of thrash…”, I could not thank him more for pointing to the review, this one yes, I identify myself completely with.
I’m very pleased that this has even let people thinking about reading the book… what more one could ask?
For the ending part of the book, let me say again: “they did not come back to the same world, did they”?
Just bringing a bit more heat to the fire: what you thing about “Starship Troopers”?
Best regards,
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Brilliant piece of cold war xenophobic thinking on top
interesting philosophical and moral discussion underneath
The movie slaughters the novel
Heinlein in fine preachy mood
To get an idea of the main themes in Heinlein's work read:
For us the Living(1939)
http://www.heinleinsociety.org/newsFUTL.html