Robert Heinlein

[Debbie]

Has anyone ever read any of his stuff?

 

If you have, which did you prefer, the older stories or the later novels?

 

Did you think he lost the plot at the end or was the later stuff better?

 

Debbie

[southernlady]

Debbie, I loved his books...read almost every book he wrote. If I didn't read it, it was because I couldn't find it. Some of his books, I read three or four times.

 

Favorites:

"Time Enough For Love"

"The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"

"I Will Fear No Evil"

 

And his collection of quotes:

"The Notebooks of Lazarus Long"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Lazarus_Long

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long is a selection of catchphrases and pearls of wisdom from one of Robert A. Heinlein's main characters (Lazarus Long). These were originally published as two "intermissions" in the 1976 novel Time Enough For Love. In the context of the novel, these quotes were selected from Long's much longer memoirs (which make up a significant portion of the novel).

 

Two of those books are based on one of his earliest characters and books: Methuselah's Children which leads me to believe I prefer his ealier work written as his more modern work Does that make any sense? I guess he took his earliest character and grew up with him. Liz