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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
I started reading Tunnel in the Sky recently, and have put it down.
My impressions of the book are that Heinlein writes like a soldier in a war who has never been in a war. He idolizes a mythical American frontier liberalism, that maybe never existed. It feels like a garish pastiche.
...perhaps he particulary appeals to people who sympathasize with his idealized conservative world view, which I find silly and shallow.
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I agree. His style of idealized libertarianism never really grabbed me. Tunnel in the Sky was one of his that I read. If you didn't like the beginning, I wouldn't expect it to get better.
My strongest memory is when the main character sees a fellow student die in front of him and his reaction is 'too bad!'
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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
Starship Troopers is also full of this rugged individualism. I suppose its his best expression of it. But it all seems very John Wayne to me. Some people like John Wayne. I prefer my Westerns with Clint Eastwood.
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You have good taste
