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Originally Posted by mcsluggo
btw... what defines Heinlein's "ugly books"?
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Well, FF certainly qualifies...
I will fear no evil also represents something of a stinker effort from Heinlein, and some of his later books reprise the annoying habit that Heinlein started in
Stranger in a Strange Land of starting out a work with a tight, compelling narrative and then ending it with long-winded, didacticly mystical gobbly-gook chapters, so even though his later works are well worth reading, and are and were worthy of recieving critical praise, I would consider some of them to be 'ugly', and are somewhat unsatisfying reads...