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Originally Posted by HarryT
You could very well be right there. I first read these books when I was a teenager, and they made a huge impression on me at the time.
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That huge first impression is the intangible, I think. We can never go back and objectively (not completely anyway) reread something without that first impression looming. It's just the way we're wired, I imagine. For instance: my first Heinlein book was
Stranger in a Strange Land (as a late-ish teenager). It hit me like a ton of bricks. After that (and after some of his other later works that I thorougly enjoyed), his earlier stuff was pretty lack-luster for me.
I have no problem with people liking other Heinlein books better, but I admit it gets my hackles up a bit when someone suggests (not you specifically Harry) that my appreciation of Heinlein is not the correct and/or
accepted one. That the earlier books are somehow
objectively better than the later ones. Nothing could be further from the truth, in my opinion. My experience proves it.
