Modern Classics Summarized: Stranger In A Strange Land
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Published 2020-03-20
10% Mike
20% stars
15% concentrated power of mars
5% water
50% cult
and 100% topics that are very adult
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All Comments (21)
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"This is never explained, I think it's just something Heinlein is into" literally the entire book
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I feel like Heinlein was writing a story about a super powered alien coming to earth and learning its customs but then he got distracted and started writing about his sexual fantasies.
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tl;dr: Heinlein wrote a book about a powerful alien coming to Earth and learning about humanity as an outsider, but unfortunately he only had one hand on the typewriter while he did it.
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An alien who doesn't laugh laughing for the first time at the sight of the cycle of abuse is legitimately creepy
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“That’s not an old one, that’s a corpse nobody’s eaten yet.” Sentences I never expected to hear for 400
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first act michael: soft boy, precious son. Protect Him. second act michael: [CENSORED]
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This feels like a fanfic that switched writers halfway through.
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It’s nice to see that in the book humans have evolved enough that the argument “Mike can’t own Mars because there’s already other people living there” is actually accepted, because historically, a place already being inhabited unfortunately hasn’t been enough to stop people from claiming that they own it anyway
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"There used to be a fifth planet between Earth and Jupiter that the Martians decided shouldn't exist anymore and that's why there's an asteroid belt instead." Okay but why couldn't the book have been about that That's a story in and of itself
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Every time theres a "Deep Thoughts with Heinlein" you slowly begin to understand and feel the pain of the bystanders listening to the philosopher with agonizing looks on their faces in that greek painting
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"If you disagree with me, especially about my ideas about sex, the only explanation is that you are brainwashed." -Deep Thoughts with Heinlein
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I had a girlfriend whose favorite book was "Stranger in a Strange Land". She philosophically based a lot of her lifestyle around it. I didn't understand why our relationship was so one sided until I read it some years after we broke up.
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“T-posing psychic nudist colony with rage-eyed Heinlein censor bars” is the most cursed thing I’ve seen all month.
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So according to this book, the meaning of life, the world, the universe and everything isn't 42. It's 69
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I’m officially an adult now and can watch this video without hurting Red’s conscience. Finally.
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Red: "Which I'm sure real astrolagers would never do" The time-travelling goat-fish: ...
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“So in case you were questioning the morality of his actions, it’s fine because he was an Angel the whole time. WEEEE.” So was Satan and look how he turned out.
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You skipped over the part where Jill says that its the victims fault when they are raped, so yeah consent really isn't a thing the book cares about.
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“THATS the story? That was just the authors barely concealed fetish”
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"And Ben, who IS saying No to a lot of this is being treated like he'll learn or come around" as an aro/ace I can relate
