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Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
Heinlein definitely makes you think about your culture, your way of life, and whether you're living life on autopilot to fit in with common conceptions. However, he fails to see the irony in saying "Everyone is their own master" and heavily implying, "...except women". His female characters are less people and more talking boards for a number of "brilliant" men. But guess what, it's easy to prove anything is the optimal solution, even *libertarianism*, if you surround one verbose and somewhat well-reasoned dude (Jubal Harshaw) with women who offer no opposition other than "Oh goodness! But that's not how things are done!". Heinlein writes the exact circumstances where his particular political and moral philosophies will thrive, and hopes you will make the logical fallacy of extrapolating these ideas as applicable to the entire world.
In sum: it's definitely a book to make you think, and has some cool historical context ( I have a feeling the ideas in this book were much more controversial when it was published). But don't get swept up in the world according to Heinlein - his world is outdated.
In sum: it's definitely a book to make you think, and has some cool historical context ( I have a feeling the ideas in this book were much more controversial when it was published). But don't get swept up in the world according to Heinlein - his world is outdated.