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Complexity  ·  3484 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Have you read the 200 'best American novels'? | Art Beat | PBS NewsHour

It was strange, the level of interest generated by the novel at the time. People would turn up at the door of the house he built hoping for some sort of insight from him. I was a Heinlein completist, way back when. I bought everything he ever wrote (including a collection of published letters). Looking back, I did enjoy his harder stories more. There was something essentially hopeful about Stranger, though, along with all those thick books: Friday, The Number Of The Beast. Although the latter did have a breathtakingly unfortunate turn of phrase which, even in jest, drew me up as I read.