Stranger In A Strange Land

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2005-05-27 01:13am

I just finished it the other night, and was wondering what everyone else thinks about it.

I personally found Jubal's observations on the nature of mainstream religion to be accurate and powerful for as few words as were used to make them.

Zero · Post by **Zero** » 2005-05-27 01:16am

One of my favorite books, in all honesty... does this belong in this section? Just asking.

Alliance SpecForceTrooper · Post by **Alliance SpecForceTrooper** » 2005-05-27 01:21am

I Groked it.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2005-05-27 01:25am

Zero132132 wrote:One of my favorite books, in all honesty... does this belong in this section? Just asking.

I consider this to be a philosophy forum as well, so I thought it fit. If it belongs in OT or, bob forbid, testing, please, by all means, move it.

And I don't know if I used enough commas there.

Mr. B · Post by **Mr. B** » 2005-05-27 01:55am

I honestly didnt think this book was as good as others have said. I thought the first half of the book was interesting and very good, but the second half was confusing and did not make much sense to me.

sketerpot · Post by **sketerpot** » 2005-05-27 11:38am

Mr. B wrote:I honestly didnt think this book was as good as others have said. I thought the first half of the book was interesting and very good, but the second half was confusing and did not make much sense to me.

Exactly.

People always talk about Stranger in a Strange Land as if it were an amazing mind-stretching book that would bring you much closer to enlightenment. I read most of it, but I couldn't finish the second half. It was boring! I didn't see any new ideas, except for a bunch of weird unscientific mysticism.

I think it's like stuff by Nietzsche: important in its time, but no longer nearly as relevant as it used to be.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2005-05-27 12:04pm

It was a good book all around, but I hated the preachiness that it got into. Jubal was just a voice for Heinlein's libertarianism and it lost points there.

LordChaos · Post by **LordChaos** » 2005-05-27 07:02pm

I enjoyed it, but I won't recomend it to someone until I have a grasp of their taste and thinking.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2005-05-27 08:39pm

It's a very well written book. I agree it got to preaching a bit, but that was also Jubal's character, he liked to be right.

It did make me reassess a few things, and any book that does that it a-Okay.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-05-27 10:50pm

I liked it, but the whole time he was being killed I was just hoping he'd kick all those thug's asses. I mean come on!!!

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-05-27 10:51pm

Could a mod retcon a spoiler warning into the above for the people who haven't read it (all 4 of 'em

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Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-05-28 03:22am

dammit didn't post this when I finished it two years ago.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-05-28 03:24am

Well and truely Grokked

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-05-28 07:04am

I agree with the above posters: The first half was great, my kind of sci-fi. The second half was... blah. All in all, I prefered Starship Troopers, though more for the power-armored alien-stomping badassness than any half-baked political views.