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Originally Posted by Larry Delor
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Just read one of his books a couple of months ago. The cat who walks through walls. (Pixel was her name) Only dissappointment was the ending....I do believe I said: " Well, that sucked!" Up until then, I really liked the book, and it was just getting good!
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Two points about that one, Larry:
When I first read "Cat Who," I thought he was doing an SF riff on the ending of Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls." Robert Jordan, heroic self-sacrifice, etc. I'd love to interpret it that way, but (second point) RAH resolved it with his next and last book, "To Sail Beyond the Sunset." It's good too. Note especially the commentary on the symptoms of a sick or dying society.
It's odd, but Heinlein seems to polarize people; you either love him or hate him. And people have this funny tendency to read into his work whatever they want, instead of the actual text. My ex-wife loved his time-travel novel "The Door into Summer." It features a cat named Pete. Well, my ex was absolutely positive the text said in black and white that Pete was a Siamese. Ruined her day when I pointed to the passage where a character says about Pete, "I've got a tabby just like him at home."
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