As a book lover I obviously keep all the books that I found enjoyable at one time. In high school I read a lot of Heinlein. His book The Number of Beast was one of my favorites. The underlying concept that there are 6 to the 6 to the 6 worlds out there and that every world is created when someone decides to write a story always fascinated me. And it is funny that the two stories I always go back to is ERB Barsoom books and the Baum's Oz books are featured in this book. Great serial novels taking a basic ideal and keeping the characters alive. So having read some ERB lately I decided to revisit the book to see if it held up after all these years. I figure it has been 20 years since I last read it and while I thought it was ok I sort of got bored with it about halfway through and pretty much skimmed the rest of it. The whole part with L. Long I just couldn't remember. Overall it just didn't speak to me like it once did. Wonder how much that is the case with other books that I hold high esteem for?
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