Red Mosquito

malice wrote:

bune wrote:Almost done with Stranger in a Strange Land.

Whoa. Whoa. Fucking whoa. "Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it's partly her fault."

There's some backward-ass thinking going on in the book to be sure, and I understand it's because of the time period, but Holy Hey-Zeus. What the hell is this.

I read somewhere that the first 2/3 of the book was written before the last 1/3 and this certainly shows. There were good ideas and now it's a cult. OK then.

Still inexhaustibly wealthy, and now free to travel, Smith becomes a celebrity and is feted by the Earth's elite. He investigates many religions, including the Fosterite Church of the New Revelation, a populist megachurch wherein sexuality, gambling, alcohol consumption, and similar activities are allowed, even encouraged, and only considered "sinning" when not under church auspices. The Church of the New Revelation is organized in a complexity of initiatory levels: an outer circle, open to the public; a middle circle of ordinary members who support the church financially; and an inner circle of the "eternally saved" — attractive, highly sexed men and women, who serve as clergy and recruit new members. The Church owns many politicians and takes violent action against those who oppose it. Smith also has a brief career as a magician in a carnival, where he and Gillian befriend the show's tattooed lady, an "eternally saved" Fosterite named Patricia Paiwonski.

Yeah, maybe I should check out the edited version eventually.

I was not a big fan of this book. I wanted to like Heinlein, i really did, but it was just too big of a cultural/generational divide for me to cross.
I tried one other book of his after this one, and believe i accidentally left it in a burger king half finished. I don't even remember which book.

bada wrote:I tend to mix up Heinlein and Haldeman.

B wrote:Movies 3/50.

An Inconvenient Sequel
Alien: Covenant
Paddington 2

I am rockin' this year.

• Son of Retro Pulp Tales by Joe R. Lansdale
  Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke

• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
  The Dark Tower (2017)
  Kong: Skull Island (2017)

• Son of Retro Pulp Tales by Joe R. Lansdale
  Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke
  A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Hope Larson

• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
  The Dark Tower (2017)
  Kong: Skull Island (2017)