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Chris Braak: I can't recall having ever been embarrassed about liking anything.
The idea of it seems...I don't know. Counterproductive? more »
Golem100: I gave Stranger two tries several years apart and couldn't stay with it either time. The last time I was in my 30s maybe I was too old even then. I'... more »
crosis101: Stranger has...and I think for good reason, been pointed to as the start of the hippie free love movement.
and Heinlien...was a dirty old man. Read F... more »
rfischer9100001: I agree with a lot of what you're saying here. Heinlein has a lot of tics that I either find annoying or endearing depending on the context.
To me, ... more »
AEchinoderm: Stranger is so damn hokey because society did meet it halfway. We are all more openly sexual today, so the book's ebullient fornication seems quaint w... more »
Is Stranger in a Stranger Land by Robert Heinlein the Catcher in the Rye for the science-fiction set? Yes, I think you could say that about the 1962 Hugo winner in one important sense. More »