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Three books of Heinlein's I will never regret reading: Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Stranger in a Strange Land. Which is not to say I e
by phlakaton 8y ago
Three books of Heinlein's I will never regret reading: Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Stranger in a Strange Land.
Which is not to say I endorse all of the ideas in those books. Disagreeing vociferously with Heinlein, or just asking "how in the heck would that actually work?!" is part of the fun!
- sevensor 8y agoAlso, if you don't read A Stranger in a Strange Land, you'll never know what grok really means.
- phlakaton 8y agoSeriously. That's a culture-bearing book right there! ("Culture-bearing," BTW, I got from Pirsig's afterword to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, yet another book I will never regret reading. :-) )