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Originally Posted by dwanthny
I haven't read any book by RAH that I felt was bad writing, Including most of his later works. I started with Stranger in a Strange Land then moved to Time Enough for Love and Number of the Beast and thoroughly enjoyed them all.
Recently I read Starship Troopers (prior to the movie which was awful) and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress both great reads. I look forward to reading Puppet Masters, Double Star, Farmer in the Sky and his other Juveniles.
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I have to agree though I have been reading Heinlein since the latter 60s. His later works like The Number of the Beast, Friday and a couple others are just different and need to be taken in the FUN they seemed intended. In fact I laughed more at the silliness of The Number of the Beast than any of his other novels.
I think folks might get lost in the middle somewhere because there is little indication there is a sequence to reading the RAH latter novels.
Now if there is an RAH related travesty...an utter and total travesty of a story line that is Variable Star which was written by Spider Robinson using a few pages of outline found in the RAH archives. The thing was a joke which was nothing more than a different version of Citizen of the Galaxy meets, oh heck, I forget which other RAH novel seemed stolen from as well. If you haven't read CoG it's a fun RAH read. But Variable Star should never be taken as an RAH work...it is weak even for a Spider Robinson work, though I enjoyed his (Spider Robinson's) short stories about the folks at Callahan's.
Speaking of Spider Robinson you can skip the Callahan related title Callahan's Legacy which contains a significant amount of material about incest/child molestation...in fact that novel pretty much put me off reading any more of Robinson's works, which is a shame.