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I liked Have Spacesuit will Travel as a kid. I read Stranger in a Strange Land a bit later. It was...all right. In those days I figured writers were wise with knowledge to impart.
I read I think it was Time Enough for Love, and recall wading through torturous pages of genetic justification why a brother and sister could mate. It was at that point that the penny dropped. This so-called great writer was just crap. It was an epiphany of sorts. Prior to that I thought published books and writers must be good.
I have yet to find anything I like by Heinlein except Have Spacesuit will Travel and Starship Troopers. I've got a copy of Tunnel in the Sky which looks all right. Partly I just don't like his tone. I find it grates. I guess some like it.
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