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Summary: More praise for Heinlein
Review: All I can really say that expresses my opinion of this work is that Time Enough For Love is one of two books I consistently buy for other people (the other being Starship Troopers). Read it.
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Summary: Challenging Society's Ideas
Review: TEFL--Time Enough For Love--is an amazing novel in that it challenges society's moral notions and shows that all things are relative and right and wrong is merely what you are trained to believe. Many reveiwers point to the incest and other sexual themes of the book in their objections to it, but they fail to see that incest is being used as a tool to get them to respond in the way they do. Heinlein uses a taboo subject to get an emotional response. By this method he attacks all morality. If you were to live for over two thousand years, your morals might change, just as society and everything else has changed. Lazarus Long is as much a metaphor for Western Society as he is for the Church, the family, and fiction itself. No subject is too sacred for Heinlein's pen. There is no sacred cow in this book that has not been attacked elsewhere, but this is probably the most enjoyable attack on social conventions that I've ever read. Science fiction is probably the only genre where such an attack can be disguised as entertainment. The only other book that that comes close is Stranger in a Strange Land, also by Heinlein, but I found Lazarus Long is a much more enjoyable character because of all of his faults than is Micheal Valentine Smith, who is too nice. TEFL's quality is marred by two things, Heinlein's sexism and hypocritical assertions that women are equal (if they were, he'd write them that way), and the episodic nature of the book.
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Summary: Why Eugenics is Illegal
Review: I would have preferred more than just two vignettes of the various lives of Woodrow Wilson Smith, aka Lazarus Long. "Time Enough for Love" was premised on his reminiscing about his two-plus millenia of existence, but Mr. Heinlein never fully followed through with it, abandoning the effort in favor of Long being finally roped into a '60s-style free-love commune and culminating his life with an incestuous encounter with his mother. Much of Mr. Heinlein's anti-religious prejudices also came through, to the extent that one might suppose Lazarus was his alter-ego.However, the actual memoir portions are compelling. And if you can skip over the aforementioned nettlesome passages, "Time Enough for Love" is still worth the price and the read.
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Summary: Open you mind!
Review: If you make a decision to look outside of the box that is latter-day doctorine and dogma, you will find that this book contains nothing but sense and genuine good ideas. Don't allow what you have been taught is right to influence what you feel is right. If you care that's all you need. This is a superb piece of work which I would encourage everyone to read. I belive it must come close to answering the question posed at the start of the book, 'What is love?' If you've ever wondered or questioned your own feelings, READ THIS!
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Summary: It's Heinlein, what can I say?
Review: It's not Heinlein's best, which is like saying "an inferior grade of diamond," apologies to Spider Robinson. It's still better than 99% of the SF ever written. Although a lot of people complain that there is too much sex in this book, Heinlein mainly treats sex in a logical, scientific manner, often going into great detail about the genetics involved. The one fault of this story is that it is actually not a story but several rolled up into one.
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Summary: This book made me think
Review: Beyond a superficial glance this book was not about an author obsessed with making love to his family,it was a book about a man that rather than seeing it all in a sapien lifetime had the chance to gain knowledge thru a miriad of lifetimes. If you really think about it are'nt we all related in some distant past? Besides i think you missed the point,and that being that the book is a wonderful collection of science and pure love without the "superstitions" that come and go with every generation. This was one of the best books i have ever read as a child and will continue to be my favorite.
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Summary: The Absolute Best Book Ever Written
Review: I am flabbergasted about the amount of people that believe that this book is about incest. It's not, plain and simple. While it does contain incest the theme of the book does not center around it. It's a story of a man who has lived over 2000 years and how his attitudes and beliefs have changed. Including his beliefs about incest. "The Tale of the Adopted Daughter" is one of the best stories by far. Even though I have read it countless times, it still makes me cry.
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Summary: My God!
Review: The more Heinlein I read, the more I like his work. I started off with Starship Troopers, then read Stranger In A Strange Land, then Time Enough for Love (Next Up: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress). I can definitely say this is the strangest book I've read, and I can definitely say it is now one of my favorite. I was particularly amazed at the character development. Heinlein was able to FULLY develop characters that entered the story 3/4 of the way into the book. All the characters were VERY unique, from a well respected prostitute to a computer that become a person to a man who was too lazy to fail. The books introduced some things that are very controversial in the current 'liberal' society, let alone the fact that it was published in the early '70s. I imagine Heinlein got some heat on many of the included issues. Once you get past these issues and realize that these issues and events take place in 4272, you will be able to enjoy this book to its full potential (think about the racism and prejudice that plagued the world just 20 years ago and see how far we've come since then. In 20 centuries, who knows what will be accepted and what won't. This is the author's interpretation of what might be, and I agree that it could be possible in just 100 years, let alone 2000! Give the author a chance, as it is a VERY good book. As with Stranger In A Strange Land, I feel myself missing all the characters and wishing that the book would go on...But you do get to spend plenty of time with the characters--It's a VERY long book. It's taken me over a month, reading maybe a half hour every night. By the way, take the book in small pieces. You'll find you'll enjoy it much more. Find a part that you don't agree with, set the book down and come back in a day or so, and you'll understand why it's there. I enjoyed the last three or four pages of this book so much that I found myself re-reading it more than 5 times. Poetry. But the introduction sheds some doubt on the conclusion of the book. Did it happen or not? Make sure you re-read the introduction once you're done, as you'll probably have forgotten much of what is said in it, and it is important that you do have that information. Anyway, I can't wait to get into TMIAHM, sounds really good (Is it just me, or does the TMIAHM book not have any indefinite articles, such as 'the' or 'she'? Oh well.) Good luck on the reading of this book, you'll love it!
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Summary: Man, oh man, oh man
Review: Yikes! I'm still in shock. About a year ago I read Straship Troopers and hated it. Now I'm a firm believer that everyone deserves a second chance. This book interested me because of it's concept: a man lives for 2000 years! Very high-concept, and it could have been done well. However instead of being about that it turns into story time with grandpa. And this isn't the nice old grandpa that will tell you about the time he and his buddies saved up to buy a car only to wreck it or how when he was in the navy during The War and one of his friends jumped overboard to save his dog. Hardly. This is told by an old perverted lecher who finds pleasure in talking down to everyone and having sex fantasies about his female descendants. Don't get me wrong, just because I disagree with an author's views does not make me dislike the book, but it was how they were presented. Let's just put it this way: Heinlein should have been a preacher. Cause that's all he does. If you want a good book about old folks talking about the god old days, buy Red Mars. Or heck, just call up grandpa, he'd probably love to hear from you.
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Summary: trash utter trash
Review: I was very fond on this author before this. I noticed some of this leaking through before this. I would not have minded so very much except he makes me feel like I am the one who is sick not him. What the devil got into this old reprobate? He had a shot at the big time here, he blew it, you would think someone who lived as long as lazarus or heinlein would know better. Far from his best, this is ghastly.Incest indeed,how horrible. What an awful concept in book form or reality
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