Yet another Heinlein reference

Tonchi · 09-25-2005, 10:37 PM

I did live through the 60's and I still couldn't relate to the book. Maybe it would have worked better as soft porn written in collaboration with Terry Southern?

As for the way the military expeditions were portrayed, he was writing in the glow of the glorious Allied Victory in WWII and before Vietnam, so I still think the creation of his heroes was influenced according to the times. He wrote it like the kind, compassionate victors viewed an invasion and its "necessity". There's nothing wrong with that, or John Wayne never would have become an American icon.

09-25-2005, 10:37 PM	#9
Tonchi Victim of gravity Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding in plain sight Posts: 1,412	I did live through the 60's and I still couldn't relate to the book. Maybe it would have worked better as soft porn written in collaboration with Terry Southern? As for the way the military expeditions were portrayed, he was writing in the glow of the glorious Allied Victory in WWII and before Vietnam, so I still think the creation of his heroes was influenced according to the times. He wrote it like the kind, compassionate victors viewed an invasion and its "necessity". There's nothing wrong with that, or John Wayne never would have become an American icon. __________________ Everything you've ever heard about Fresno is true.

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