I finally gave in and decided to read some of the Heinlein books we have around the house. (Generally I don't like hard sci-fi, so though it obviously came highly recommended I kept putting it off.) I started with--don't ask me why--"Job: A Comedy of Justice," and this almost stopped me from reading any of the others at all. What a retarded book.
But then I moved on to "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress," which I definitely enjoyed but wasn't blown away by. I think it would have been better if I could appreciate firsthand how revolutionary it was at the time it was written. As it is, I can intellectually
know it was an amazing book for its time, but it didn't awe me. I felt the same way about J.R.R. Tolkien.
Now I've just started "Stranger in a Strange Land." This one I'm liking the best by far, and I have high hopes that it will help Heinlein live up to all the recommendations everyone gave me.
