I've never read anything by him. I'm one picky faggot, though; I hate Douglas Adams, Pratchett, most Zelazni, etc.; I seriously have high standards, because my earliest books were by big classical daddies. I love me an intelligent author with a bright sense of humour, and I love mehself a novelist that understands he's an artist, yet, too, an entertainer.
So, the question. What are his best? What's his "Great Expectations"?
Why I bothered is that I've Stumbleupon'd some of his quotes, and he seemed like an intelligent author; then in Wikipedia articles I somewhat discerned he probably was quite a humorous guy; yet he was a scifi author; and all three rarely mix, so I really thought I might give it a try. I wonder.
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Anonymous2008-10-08 12:30
Go for it, the comedy really isn't really worth mentioning.
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Anonymous2008-10-08 13:24
>>2
So, what are his best? He's got more than 30 novels. I want to get a taste of his equivalents of Shining and Dreamcatcher, so to speak.
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Anonymous2008-10-09 1:40
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stranger in a strange land changed my fucking life
it presents both a critique of so much shit going on in the world right now and also offers a life philosophy that is extremely peaceful to follow
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Anonymous2008-10-11 17:56
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is at once an argument for the anarchist perspective as well as a deconstruction of its failures as a philosophy. Changed my life.
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Anonymous2008-10-11 23:38
Time Enough for Love.
It didn't change my life, but it was a good read anyway.
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Anonymous2008-10-12 20:03
Double Star was the first Heinlein book I read and I really liked it.
Avoid The Number of the Beast. Fucking sux.
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Anonymous2008-10-12 20:04
Double Star was the first Heinlein book I read and I really liked it.
Avoid The Number of the Beast. Fucking sux.
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Anonymous2008-10-13 4:32
OP here, thanks, guys, trying to read "The Moon..." Don't like it at all currently, though, feels like trashiest of sci-fi. Tall, dazzlingly beautiful blonde revolutionary on the moon, dressed in tight red? WTF. She also carried out nine other people's fetuses, because she was afraid to conceive her own after a sci-fi version of miscarriage? That really sounds like some shitty hack would write to try and impress friends on a crappy convention; but I withhold my judgement and am reading further. I've only started reading, after all.