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jwharris28
Posted 2015-01-26 1:18 PM (#9369 - in reply to #9162)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1950s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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Just finished listening to The Man Who Sold The Moon. My second 1951 book. Listening to the 2013 Brilliance Audio edition let me appreciate these Heinlein stories like I had never had before. The narrator acted them out in a way I never read. In fact, I always thought these stories were on the boring side because they're so talky. Hearing them presented this way is the way I imagined Heinlein heard them in his head.

I was also surprised the stories were out of order though from the original Shasta edition. And the original Shasta edition had two introductions by Heinlein that get left out of all latest editions. "Blow-Ups Happen" comes last in the book, but its events happen before "The Man Who Sold the Moon." If you look at ISFDB http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?31918 it appears almost every edition is slightly different. I find that annoying.

Edited by jwharris28 2015-01-26 1:20 PM

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