Posted by Bob - the Alien on August 28, 2002 at 10:00:26:
In Reply to: Kat and the Uncle Jack posted by giveawayboy on August 28, 2002 at 08:36:52:
: : Wow! Now I really want to hear about this Heinlein philosophy on women. I'll wait though. Here's the real shame though, I don't have time to read anything I don't consider essential anymore, which means I haven't read any Science Fiction in quite some time. Well, except a half hearted attempt to read C.S.Lewis' Space trilogy. Bummer. I think I read Ursula Leguin before but I can't remember anything about the book. I like Asimov(the man is an institution), but I think reading his stuff is sometimes laborious. Speaking of Asimov, I saw him on TV years ago on Dr Ruth Westheimer's show, of all places. She was really coming on to him, it was hysterical!
: : Shalom,
: : -kat
:
: Hey Kathleen,
: Did you just not like the C.S. Lewis stories? I'm just curious. I really enjoyed them, especially THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH which was a very complex and prophetic type of book.
: Later, Bill
Oh, man...
I didn't scroll far enough and never even saw that response to the earlier thread. Boy, don't I feel like a lunkhead now.
I can imagine that Dr. Ruth and Asimov would be a scary sight together. Its kinda funny just thinking of it.
I really liked the CS Lewis trilogy when I was a kid. I think I outgrew it after college because I found it hard to read it for the story anymore. Its religious aspects kinda slapped me in the face to the point where I decided that if I wanted to read christian philosophy, I would just do so, and not have it layered into scifi/fantasy books. Which is also why I dont read the Narnia stories anymore...
And I feel this way equally about any philsophy that overwhelms the story. Which is back to the problem with Heinlein. The fact that his philosophy is abhorrent to me just makes me avoid his work like the plague.
Ironically, I own many, many Heinlein books because the artist who did the covers for his pulp paperbacks from the sixties is a really cool artist. Alas, his work in nowhere to be found anymore because he stopped working actively about that same time, and never did much other than paperback and album covers.