Scott_650
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Heinlein was suffering from a carotid blockage - his successful bypass surgery was one of the first. TNotB was published after the surgery but I don’t know when he wrote it - I find it a much less problematic read than To Sail Beyond the Sunset, The Cat Who Could Walk Through Walls or Job: A Comedy of Errors, which were all written after. Friday I can take or leave - IMO it’s pretty much an adult retread of some of his juvenile books. His “World As Myth” concept was/is an interesting idea and it’s become part of many current authors’ world building. But I don’t think he had it nearly worked out as well he thought he did.There are those who thought the same about Robert Heinlein, what with some of his later works. The Number of the Beast being a case in point.
Frank Herbert was a different kind of cat, the first two Dune books are probably the best he did - the later ones were not my cup of tea and the best I could do with the continuation/prequel books was skim them in frustration - YMMV
The Villeneuve film was amazing - I wish they could’ve made the next one back-to-back with the first! The minor changes made for the movie didn’t have any real impact to the story or feel of the source material (unlike some of Peter Jackson’s butchery of big swaths of Lord of the Rings - still a good adaptation but sad that it wasn’t as good as it could have been). I see some Oscars being handed out for Dune Part One…