Heinlein and his second wife had an open marriage, and he was always inspired to write about free love as though it were an essential freedom. I just finished re-reading Glory Road (1963), and the sheer volume of type he expends on his two main characters being cute with each other, and his weird concepts of gender roles, is just plain fatiguing. I read Time Enough For Love in the 70s and I was appalled then; no way I could read it now.
Heinlein was an odd bird, but what he wrote before 1960 was his best.
Nathan Deal quit his job as a Congressman just two weeks before the Department of Justice was going to indict him for corruption.
Everything RAH wrote after 'Stranger' was a waste of my time; and the later in his career, the bigger the waste. I have strong memories of 'Number of the Beast' as being a revelation to my teenage self that not everything from a favorite author is going to be to my taste. I found an old copy of "Sail Beyond the Sunset" in the attic last month. The first eight or ten pages reminded me why it was up there. Now it's on the 'trade or give away' pile.
Read <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love">Time Enough for Love</a>.
I just can't figure out how they changed outgoing Gov. Mark Sanford's gender.
SC has its first female Governor
How did everyone else's elections turn out?
-Tammy [_]3