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Re:Vonnegut Reviews Heinlein's “Stranger in a Strange Land” by JJMcJ on Saturday May 29, 2021 @04:54PM (#27328162)
His later books had the self-indulgent feel that I was referring too. Self-referential, wordy, very strange approach to life.
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Re:Vonnegut Reviews Heinlein's “Stranger in a Strange Land” by ghaff on Saturday May 29, 2021 @04:59PM (#27328183)
It's obviously totally fine not to like post-juvenile Heinlein but my point is that pretty much no one would remember Heinlein for pre-late 50s YA fiction alone.
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Re:Vonnegut Reviews Heinlein's “Stranger in a Strange Land” by JJMcJ on Saturday May 29, 2021 @05:46PM (#27328483)
You may be right. Though not all his pre-1960 work was YA.
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Re:Vonnegut Reviews Heinlein's “Stranger in a Strange Land” by JJMcJ on Sunday May 30, 2021 @01:39AM (#27330876)
One more thought, even if we don't consider Stranger and afterward as "late career" it does feel like a break with prior work, YA or adult.
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