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The Doors, the Wailers, and the Misfits! With special guests!
Because they're lying and trying to get something they know they aren't supposed to get by saying they'd get it at some other place, and you don't want them to go there, do you?
Given that I work for a large company, I'm not too worried and I get this fairly rarely, but still...
I'll need to look into that. I've heard only good things about Heinlein's stories so far, so I really should give it a try.
Well, later Heinlein works are very much YMMV (YKMV in France? ).
Personally, I rate TEFL and its sequel To Sail Beyond the Sunset kinda low, but part of that is my dislike of the whole "World As Myth" concept. Not sucky, mind you, just a let-down compared to his earlier work.
If you can find The Past Through Tomorrow, an anthology of his "Future History" stories up to and including Methuselah's Childresn, you'll be well on your way to seeing some of his best (IMO) work. It's a special book made up for the Sci-Fi Book Club, though, not something regularly available via retail, so if it's not at a library, you'll have to eBay it (I got my copy at a used fiction book store).
Other "must read" Heinleins, IMO, include The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers (Verhoeven's movie of the same name is, depending on your viewpoint, a brilliant parody of the book, or a complete cluster of a travesty; I fall into the latter camp, FWIW), and pretty much all of his young adult books.
Okay, enough RAH fanboying.
No matter how low my opinion of humanity as a whole gets, there are always over-achievers who seek to surpass my expectations.
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