Yup... we discussed that some time ago, and I think of "Tunnel" (unfortunate acronym) every time I strap one on.

I'm a bit subversive in that way. I've been known to buy Heinlein "juvenile" paperbacks and drop them in the "books for kids" donation boxes. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> In these PC days, though, probably nothing less mainstream than Harry Potter ever makes it to the kids. Unfortuunately, the current edition of "Tunnel" has a stupid cover illustration that guarantees that it will end up in a dumpster the first time a "responsible adult" in this culture catches sight of it.

I had a High School teacher who pointedly sneered at Heinlein for his insistance on "competent" main characters. He seemed to think that striving for competence was somehow pathological, and that it was much more healthy to learn to adjust to, and live with, your incompetence instead. Explains a lot, doesn't it?

Come to think of it, maybe Baden-Powell's recently-reprinted orignal "Scouting for Boys" would be equally subversive in this culture, but harder to justify censoring. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />