Friday is a rather jolly adventure romp, but To Sail Beyond the Sunset is pretty poor - Heinlein revisiting large numbers of characters from previous books and trying to tie them together into one coherent timeline and family.
Stranger is okay if you can overlook the low level misogynism that pervades. I agree that it's a classic (and the edited version is marginally better), but it's a difficult read for the above reason.
To Sail Beyond the Sunset is pretty poor - Heinlein revisiting large numbers of characters from previous books and trying to tie them together into one coherent timeline and family. I didn't say it was good, but you are actually right. :) Probably not a good recommendation for a not-quite-my-first Heinlein then (though it was my first, now I come to think of it.) Stranger is okay if you can overlook the low level misogynism that pervades. I agree that it's a classic (and the edited version is marginally better), but it's a difficult read for the above reason. Oddly enough, I can't remember that and I always thought of myself as a feminist. Pah!
People always remember their first Heinlein - I'm fairly sure that mine was Between Planets.
My rule of thumb re: Heinlein novels is that he lost it in the early 1970s, and everything after that time is mediocre at best. Friday is the only real exception to this, although Job comes close in places (it's a bit preachy for my liking).
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Date: 2005-03-23 12:58 am (UTC)Stranger is okay if you can overlook the low level misogynism that pervades. I agree that it's a classic (and the edited version is marginally better), but it's a difficult read for the above reason.
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Date: 2005-03-23 04:11 am (UTC)I didn't say it was good, but you are actually right. :) Probably not a good recommendation for a not-quite-my-first Heinlein then (though it was my first, now I come to think of it.)
Stranger is okay if you can overlook the low level misogynism that pervades. I agree that it's a classic (and the edited version is marginally better), but it's a difficult read for the above reason.
Oddly enough, I can't remember that and I always thought of myself as a feminist. Pah!
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Date: 2005-03-23 05:43 am (UTC)My rule of thumb re: Heinlein novels is that he lost it in the early 1970s, and everything after that time is mediocre at best. Friday is the only real exception to this, although Job comes close in places (it's a bit preachy for my liking).