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Stranger in a Strange Land
Did everyone have to read this book either in High Shcool or College? I am just curious...
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2005-06-03, 06:56 AM
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wasn't that an iron maiden song?
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2005-06-03, 07:10 AM
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Never heard of the book but I've now got David Bowie's 'Changes' song going through my mind, and the visual of Shrek lol
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2005-06-03, 07:17 AM
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I remember it as being a really good book. We had to read it in our first year of College. But it is worth the read.
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2005-06-03, 07:19 AM
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I have been reading a lot lately so I started thinking of my favorite book. Stranger in a Strange Land has to be one of them.
I am reading all my Grandfather's books now. He collected books about our area and the Adirondacks. It's strange reading books where local towns are named.  |
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2005-06-03, 07:24 AM
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yeah, had to read it in my English classes: just remember the title but don't know anymore what the story was about.
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2005-06-03, 07:26 AM
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Rocco, you should read it again. I think I am going to after my latest, "The Loomis Gang".
It's about a local family of thieves. I am friends with some of the descendent's. |
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2005-06-03, 07:43 AM
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I never did. During my Libertarian phase (in high school and college) many of my buddies suggested I read it. Thanks for the reminder Jim. It is a book I should pick up!
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2005-06-03, 08:02 AM
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The only book I ever had to read in High School was "The catcher in the rye". Still got it somewhere stuffed between my Raymond E. Feist collection.
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No offence Apu, but when they were handing out religions you must have been out taking a whizz
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Pretty much anything written by Heinlein is "required reading", but this one is definitely a keeper. I lost/misplaced my hardback edition several moves ago. Originally read it about 20 years ago - need to grab a new copy and re-read it.
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2005-06-03, 08:55 AM
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Read?
When I was at the Presidio of Monterey I read Hesse's Demian in German, twice. I have no idea what that book is about.
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2005-06-03, 09:00 AM
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I groked it!
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Grok. What a word. And, Jubal. I wanted to bed that old geezer.
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2005-06-03, 02:16 PM
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I fuckin loved that book, big time. I think I read it first when I was 11 years old. I devoured anything by Heinlein that I could find at that age.
As an adult reader I find RAH kind of silly- science fiction writing has evolved a lot since his day. But, while I rarely read his stuff anymore, or re-read I should say, he will always have a special place in my thoughts. It's no exageration to say that Stranger may have influenced me religiously more than any other book I've read. I read it at exactly the right time for it to imprint me with a deep sense of libertarian spirituality. Crazy thing to say about a science fiction book, but there it is. |
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2005-06-03, 03:55 PM
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We didn''t read in my school. We carved pictures on the cave walls.
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2005-06-03, 03:57 PM
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Read it in high school.
What spookyx said. |
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2005-06-03, 04:26 PM
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dont know it, i still read alot, one of my favorite,: all the murderes in abc order, hey i am not a freak but i love that book, i have bin reading it for the 4th time, the murders goes back till year 1820 i believe, lol and one of my favorite books, i think Fonz will know them its a ch*ld book called Pinkeltje, it about a little man just the size of your little finger who have alot of adventures, hey i know i am nuts but i just like those books and reading..........
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2005-06-03, 07:04 PM
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No shit...I was at Fort Ord and a neighborhood friend was at the Presidio learning Russian. Until the army found out he smoked weed. |
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NO! Im not a female - but being a dragon, I do eat them.
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Between that and the little red book they were the top "had-to" read stories back in the 60s - we had whole church movements based on that book that just knew in the future there would be so much govt intervention as to really change our way of thinking - hey it really came to pass didnt it
 It was funny that when we discussing the book (not in school - they wouldnt have allowed it back then) the major differences that came to light between the people that got it and those that didnt - sorta like the old animal farm story - some people still think that was just a story about animals on a farm LOL - (linkster goes off singing Beasts of England to himself)  |
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