Heinlein [was: Good Reading, Anyone?]

2009-06-22 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Doug Pensinger wrote: > > I'm sure a lot of you have read the Heinlein, but this was my first > attempt since I threw The Cat who Walks through Walls across the room, > unfinished, many years ago. "Cat" is the worst possible "First Heinlein" to read. It makes too many references to other books,

Re: Heinlein [was: Good Reading, Anyone?]

2009-06-22 Thread Doug Pensinger
Alberto wrote: > > > "Cat" is the worst possible "First Heinlein" to read. It makes too > many references to other books, it should be Heinlein's _last_. Cat wasn't my first Heinlein, I'd read a few others including Stranger in a Strange Land which I enjoyed. [The Moon is a Harsh Mistress] > > T

Re: Heinlein

2009-06-22 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Doug Pensinger wrote: > > >> "Cat" is the worst possible "First Heinlein" to read. It makes too >> many references to other books, it should be Heinlein's _last_. > > Cat wasn't my first Heinlein, I'd read a few others including > Stranger in a Strange Land which I enjoyed.  > Ok, but "Cat" ma

Re: Heinlein

2009-06-22 Thread Max Battcher
Alberto Monteiro wrote: How is The Number of the Beast? I read an excerpt from the book way back before it was published (in Omni) and was hot to read the book after that but for one reason or the other never picked it up. If you didn't like "Cat" you probably won't like "Number". OTOH, it ma

RE: Iran

2009-06-22 Thread Dan M
> > Things do not look overly promising for the protesters, but if they manage > to make it through tomorrow without their heads being cracked Iranian > public sentiment may swing decisively in their direction. It really > depends on how hard the Supreme Ayatollah swings back at them. > > We shou

Re: Iran

2009-06-22 Thread Doug Pensinger
Dan wrote: > > > > Things do not look overly promising for the protesters, but if they > manage > > to make it through tomorrow without their heads being cracked Iranian > > public sentiment may swing decisively in their direction. It really > > depends on how hard the Supreme Ayatollah swings ba

RE: Iran

2009-06-22 Thread Dan M
>Whatever the final outcome Ahmadinejad's position has to have been severely weakened.   >As he's a nut case, this is a very good thing. OK, I'll agree that his position with some factions within the ruling elite has been lowered. The real question, of course, it what is the position of the Supre

RE: Iran

2009-06-22 Thread Rceeberger
On 6/22/2009 7:36:48 PM, Dan M (dsummersmi...@comcast.net) wrote: > > > > Things do not look overly promising for the protesters, but if they > manage > > to make it through tomorrow without their heads being cracked Iranian > > public sentiment may swing decisively in their direction. It really >

RE: Iran [News]

2009-06-22 Thread Rceeberger
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