Josephine writes:
>I read "Stranger in a Strange Land" in the early seventies
>when it was still a cult novel. A couple of years ago I
>re-read it, in a new 'cut' that contained a lot of material
>previously missing from the first edition. Either this had
>lowered the quality of the text (ie the editor was right!)
>or it has not survived the ravages of time. Or maybe I've
>changed a lot in the past thirty years. It certainly did not
>seem the great read it was in my youth, though it did
>influence its generation very much.
I also read that edition and thought it was awful, full of a kind of
home-made 'wisdom'. I don't know whether the edited version works better,
but I certainly thought the book had been overrated. I usually steer clear
of books with allegorical Christ-figures in them, anyway.
Best wishes
Matthew
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