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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
I know this is the pot calling the kettle black, but you're crazy! That stuff is delicious!
The closest I can get to it is braunschwiger (sp?). I eat it on pumpernickle rye. Sliced, with a mater...Mmmm!
Mmmmm......liver pudding....
It's a North Carolina thing...isn't it?
Hmmm... that's a harder question than you'd think. The best time to start Heinlein is when you're a 12 year old boy. Or a reasonable approximation thereof. 12 year old girls are ok too. It works best when the world is shiny and new as your latest Scouting badge.
That said, his books are marvelous. My personal favorite is "The Rolling Stones". You might try one of his short story collections, probably "The Man Who Sold The Moon" or "The Green Hills of Earth". "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is a pretty libertarian piece of SF.... not written for kids... which you either love or hate. "The Door Into Summer" and "Double Star" are the other two novels that sort of sit on the cusp between his juvenile fiction and his weird stuff, IMO, and so make an easy read.
***not really seeing what the problem is here...***
Heh. I guess.
Yer supposed to fry it up until it's crunchy on the outside and squishy on the inside.
~shudder~
But, to start, you might want to pick up The Past Through Tomorrow, a collection of short stories and novellas that pretty much defines his Future History. From there, you want to read Starship Troopers, and The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, and the "Boy's Life" books, of course.
Jen, what do you suggest?
***rummages through the gray matter***
Didn't I read Starship Troopers and decide I didn't like it? Seems like I did a couple of year ago at thebeach.
Might have to go make some now ...
It's 96% fat free....
"Starship Troopers" is never the book one should read to start Heinlein. His tendency to lecture comes out a bit too strong. If you don't already know and understand his style, it just doesn't work, there's not enough plot to hang the essays on. It's like "Atlas Shrugged". Only, well, readable.
"Moon is a Harsh Mistress" has some of the same tendencies. That's why a short story collection is probably the way to go. He doesn't have as much room to warm up and has to focus more on just the story.
Can't figure out what particular story to tell you to start with. I am awfully partial to "The Menace From Earth" but that's because I first read it when I was 16 and liked to think I was the heroine ;-) "The Long Watch" is pretty... gripping. I think it's in the "Man Who Sold the Moon" collection but I don't have the contents memorized.
I have this texture problem with a lot of foods. Basically anything that's a creamy, half-liquid consistency. Pudding, stew, yogurt... squash or really soft vegetables. I hate it because some of them taste really good for the first three seconds but then I just can't get it down and it ruins things. And pretty much all spinach is like that. Though I had some amazingly good spinach on one occasion I've never been able to figure out what made it edible.
Both. I know a select few.
Much of the sci-fi I've read was more of the sort that is more psychological than true sci-fi. I.e. CS Lewis' space trilogy, and Huxley's Brave New World.
I've read a tiny bit of Heinlein. I liked The Moon is a Harsh Mistress despite some of the weirdness...didn't finish some of his other books I've tried. For one, I don't really like hard science type stuff, and tended to skip over those parts. I admit it, I find people more interesting than technical details on how long distance flight might work. Tell me it works, and I'll accept that - now get on with the story!
This spinach and cream-cheese dish is more like cream-cheese consistency than anything ...
And I'm sitting here, thinking about an improvement to this spinach recipe, and my mouth is watering ...
"tactile defensive."
Jr's the same way. Wouldn't eat pudding or yogurt as kid and still won't.
Have you tried Heinlein's Glory Road? It was his homage to sword-n-sorcery fiction.
Did he have a really strong gag reflex? I did... still do honestly but there aren't that many situations that I let myself be in where it's a problem.
I also believe that I am mildly lactose intolerant. Cannot stand the smell of yougurt, and sometimes of milk. Ice cream and certain applications of cheese are the only dairy that I can handle. Between the two I end up being a really really picky eater. I also hate noodles but that's just a weird thing rather than a physical problem.
Me too, even when it's completely wrong SF. I loooove the chapter at the beginning of "Tunnel in the Sky" where he explains all the science and societal results of that science and it's just this big unapologetic "here's how it works, read this and then we can get back to the story" bit.
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