The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Rating:
Summary: Lost In Translation...
Review: Look I would love to say this was a great read but frankly the writing style had some huge grammatical flaws-Perphaps, it's Heinlein's attempt at Sci-fi slang but I found myself reading sentences like three times trying to figure out what the heck he just wrote...this is what I am talking about,
example form page 48:
"My Pleasure. Move to couch and I'll rid of table and dishes,- no can't help; I'm host." I cleared table, sent up dishes, saving coffee and vodka, racked chairs, turned to speak.

-I'm not pretending to be a freaking English teacher - but hey man-this is just one paragraph from many like this- I get the idea of what Heinlein saying but for the love of God throw in a freaking adjective. "I moved to THE couch."

Maybe it was the Editors fault...I don't know.

So many people told me about this book, which made it even more disappointing. In my opinion, cool plot-painful read. I would recommend going to the book store and reading a chapter or two to see if you can handle this sytle of writing...I couldn't.



Rating:
Summary: Well written if somewhat dated...
Review: Although originally written in the 60's, this book was still interesting to read even in 2004. Obviously, some of the technology seems a little out dated - but the book is mostly about politics, and politics never really change.