Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert Anson Heinlein | Science Fiction & Fantasy | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0450547426 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingULRKwing of București, Wallachia Romania on 12/28/2012
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Journal Entry 1 by wingULRKwing from București, Wallachia Romania on Friday, December 28, 2012
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) is an international best seller and a landmark in more ways than one: it opened the trade best sellers lists to sf writers, breaking down longstanding barriers that will never be seen again. At the same time Stranger became an emblem of the 1960s generation in its iconoclasm and free-love themes. Telling the story of an Earth baby raised by an existing, ancient Martian civilization, the novel often reads as if it were the "Playboy Philosophy" in dialog form. The man/ Martian comes to Earth and broadcasts his ideas by forming his own Church.

Journal Entry 2 by lamelemon at București, Wallachia Romania on Thursday, April 17, 2014
Picked from the BookCrossers' meetup earlier today. Thank you!

Journal Entry 3 by lamelemon at București, Wallachia Romania on Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Sci-Fi satire sounds like a nice way to end/start a year, and it really was. Heinlein is not afraid to mock anything and everything that centuries of morals held and still hold dear. What I liked most? The way that the language-is-knowledge theme was played, the religious and social allegories, the paparazzi, the wholesome ending. Yes, the book is also full of misogyny, racial slurs and various other forms of violence and intolerance (hell, there is even a minor genocide sewn somewhere in Mike's ideology). Yet I think the book does a good job of condemning rather than condoning such tendencies, at least in the note I read it in.

Happy new year ULRK and thanks for sharing this book with me :)
It is finally ready for a new home, sorry I kept it for so long - I am very curious what is the next stop in its journey.

Released 4 yrs ago (4/26/2019 UTC) at Haus der Jugend - BC Convention 2019 in Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz Germany

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

This book got homesick, so it hitched a ride to Mainz for the Bookcrossing convention. Thank you ULRK for sharing - and kind regards from me and RazFaz - who may or may not have contributed to your hiccup bout last evening :)

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Journal Entry 5 by faerie-glen at Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz Germany on Monday, April 29, 2019
Taken home from the 2019 convention in Mainz.

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