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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Sorry, but I disagree entirely. In my opinion, Heinlein's work did not start getting better until Stanger in a Strange Land. Everything that came before was fairly rudimentary in my opinion. Competent, but not nearly as thought-provoking as his later stuff. I'm assuming there's some reason they label his earlier works "juveniles" ? Not having been a juvenile when I first went about trying to read them, perhaps my opinion differs from those who first experienced them at the proper time in their development?
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No need to apologise - we all have different likes and dislikes. It would be a very dull world if we all liked the same things
. I think the reason I enjoy the juveniles (many of which are far from "juvenile" in their plots, to my mind) so much is that they do take me back to a simpler world.