When I reread Glory Road as an older adult, I have to say I found the tone less convincing. Oscar Gordon is supposedly a young man, just out of the army, with a desire for romance. But he sounds like a man decades older, somewhat weary of life, and inclined to speak in the voice of experience that most young men would not have had. In fact, I think he sounds rather like Cabell's Jurgen, and while I know Heinlein was a great fan of Cabell, his tone wasn't perhaps the best model for this particular novel.
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When I reread Glory Road as an older adult, I have to say I found the tone less convincing. Oscar Gordon is supposedly a young man, just out of the army, with a desire for romance. But he sounds like a man decades older, somewhat weary of life, and inclined to speak in the voice of experience that most young men would not have had. In fact, I think he sounds rather like Cabell's Jurgen, and while I know Heinlein was a great fan of Cabell, his tone wasn't perhaps the best model for this particular novel.
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