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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. The speech patterns the characters used almost made me DNF. I pushed through to the 2/3rds point before it really started to hook me. It now stands in my top 10 of all time books
@Coherence @CurlyWurlies4All I remember dropping stranger in a strange land because of how the journalist spoke. If it was really worth making it through, maybe it's time I give Heinlein another shot. It's been like 10 years since I tried and maybe I have the patience for it now.
I didn’t care much for Stranger in a Strange Land. Not to spoil too much but felt it had a heavy handed messiah bent to it, just not my cup of tea. I did finish reading it, as it seemed a creation of it’s time and I like to experience time capsules through books. Almost prescient of later history of the decade.
Whew, in that case I may just save my time and dive into Harsh Mistress instead. Dune has satisfied my messiah needs for the foreseeable future. The time capsule element is an important consideration and I certainly appreciate it for what it's worth as I've gotten older. I had always questioned if I simply started off on the wrong foot with Heinlein or if it really is just a bit more arduous for modern readers that have a different set of itches to scratch.
You definitely have to adjust your sensibilities when reading literature from past decades.