Literary Help

[lsl]

Ok, our household is having a dilema. While cleaning up from dinner, I had a flash of memory about a book that I had read and although all of us have read it, none of us can remember what the heck it is

Comments

[tahnan]

Sadly yes. "Fair Witness"--it's Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.

[lsl]

*hangs head in shame*

I feel so lame.

Does she wear white or am I confusing something else with Heinlein?

[tahnan]

No, that's right: when on duty, a Fair Witness wears a white robe. Why do I know these things?

[rikchik]

Because it's Heinlein's one good book! (OK, that's a little unfair - I'm thinking of On A Pale Horse.)

[tahnan]

Er, that's Anthony, not Heinlein. Wrong misogynist.

Heinlein actually did have good books, most of them, I think, written before Stranger. But that one is probably much, much preachier than it needs to be.

[mamasee]

Most of his later-in-life books were much preachier than they needed to be. But I still liked them. :)