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I'm really uncomfortable with just how much I liked Heinlein's books in high school and college. They are rife with mouthpiece characters in heroic protagonist roles, and frequently stop to lecture you about this cool thing they're so smart for thinking about. Late Heinlein is so loving creepy on reflection but the way he structures the books like, for instance, Time Enough for Love is like the frog in the pot brought to a boil. Only after the fact do you realize he led you to "... and that's why it's okay that he hosed his own mother". It's super hosed up.
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Is there something horrible I need to learn about Kurt Vonnegut, out of curiosity? While his stuff wasn't exclusively science fiction, it was definitely political.
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eviltastic posted:The "Shatterday" short story compilation from Harlan Ellison is worth it for the story "Jeffty is five" alone. It's a thing where I'd ruin it by explaining it, just read it. Harlan Ellison spent an entire career setting himself up to be a cantankerous old son of a bitch, which on some level I respect. Commit to the bit, even when it means mailing a dead gopher. At the same time, groping a woman on stage when she's introducing you for an award then complaining when she didn't immediately accept a halfhearted apology via a phone call is straight loving lovely.
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Kchama posted:His entire gimmick was basically poo poo like that. Even if it was :stdh:, he talked tales of how he'd go to a woman's house pretending he was going to have sex with her or whatever, and then tie her up and and leave her there to suffer whatever fate happens when you're tied up and abandoned.  I didn't know about that poo poo but I am utterly unsurprised. What a fucker.
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Feb 12, 2021 23:20
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mllaneza posted:My favorite version of Hamlet is the corrected version as explained to a visiting anthropologist by the Tiv people. This is a pro click.
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Owlspiracy posted:why..why are the dead so horny? Lemniscate Blue posted:Rigor mortis. TLM3101 posted:If we're talking about the Night's Dawn trilogy, it's because they've been trapped together for what feels like eternity, able to see the physical world, but unable to touch it or experience it in any other way than just observation. Living life in the bone zone 
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