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Number of the Beast

Number of the Beast

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: B-O-R-I-N-G!!!
Review: Well actually this book could have been a masterpiece,but it was so full of science details that none understands,also it was kinda weird,and the plot just stayed in the place and didn't developed on,the idea plot was good and it could be intersting if there could have been more action,and one the things it was so needed to is pure action,but it didn't,so the book was kinda lost,and i think someone should try to rewrite it,with less complax science details (alot less!),more action,a plot that can develop somewhere,and make it alot more intersting and not that boring.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A very typical Heinlein,fantastic.......
Review: I have read almost all of Heinlein's work,and I can say from experence that Heinlein,will all ways be the MASTER. The number of the beast,make's you think as does all of Heinlein's,work on a dual level,first off there is the easy,fun and sometimes nutty level, and then there is the more tecnical,or scienctific level,and it does not matter what level you read it at it will still be a very enjoyable book...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: RAH to the Sixth
Review: What can I say but I love this book. As I read it I felt as though my mind was becoming six dimensional. I find the changing points of first person story telling to be a creative and dynamic idea. something that isn't expected and rarely even conceived. The idea of universe jumping to universes of their favorite books lends to the imagination of readers the what if... factor. What if this theory of each book universe being true somewhere somewhen, so that you may step out of this and into that. who knows, this device be out there somewhere? All in all, the ending cinched everything for me. Being in the Society for Creative Anachronism myself, to see that someone held in awe to many of us knows what we do, it makes one feel a little bit special to be recognized and held out for all to see. Forty more to go, and they all just get better.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Heinlein at his weirdest?
Review: Okay! Heinlein is a great author, with such books as Door into Summer, and Stranger in a Strange Land, but this book just got a little too weird for me. While some of his stories had a lot of free love going on, this one didn't use it to make the story better. I finished the book, but the ending just made the story weirder. I will continue to read Heinlein until I've finished everything by him, but this story was just a disappointment. The stories I thought would be dull (Sixth Column, Job!)were actually interesting, and most of the ones I thought would be interesting were very much so. I would suggest this book only if you are really into Heinlein, but not as your first taste of him.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: This was one book I couldn't finish.
Review: I plodded through this story for 500 pages until I was finally repulsed by the constant attempts by Heinlein to push the envelope and be as outrageous as possible. What finally got me was the incest. I really enjoyed some of his earlier works like Starship Troopers and The Sixth Column, and I wanted to collect and eventually read all of his titles. This one was starting to get a little confusing for me but I put up with it until RAH started going off the deep end with the breaking of taboos. Maybe it was over my head since I'm a new reader of Sci Fi, but I just reached a point where I wasn't interested in the story anymore.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Quintessentially Heinlein.
Review: I believe we all have a special place in our hearts for that one novel that started our flight into Science Fiction. For me, it was this one. I first read it shortly after graduating from high school. It was missing some pages toward the end and I got very confused, but loved the story.

I would like to think that Hilda, Jake, Zebbie, and DeeTee, along with Lazarus (of course), came back once more to get Robert and take him to Tertius. Somebody, somwhere, is still reading Heinlein.... new stuff that we may have to go elsewhere/when for...

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Great promise, died on the vine.
Review: I was lost in this book. The characters were in and out of focus. It started out with a feeling that it would be great. But it did not work out that way. Of all of his books, this one was the most confusing in overall direction.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Pure fun with bite
Review: Number of the Beast is the kind of book you have to be a reader to enjoy. That is, what real reader, someone who loves books and has learned the secret of losing yourself in the characters, wouldn't love the idea of fictons? Imagine, there is no real universe- we're all just figments of one another's imagination. It is heartening to think that places like Oz and Tertius (and maybe even Pern) are just a switch down the line. Those of you who are embarrased by the love expressed in between new worlds have obviously never been newlyweds! Read it for the love of words. Trust me on this one, there is a plot. You just have to read the whole book and not get bogged down by irrevelancies.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Flip a coin
Review: Is this book: 1) a parody of sci-fi 2) an in-joke 3) an attempt to force himself to get something written to make money 4) a brilliant work above my head. I can't decide :) He uses the device of having each of the characters take turns. Narrating, being captain, you name it. The whole book is about 2 married couples who are supposedly geniuses and into free love, or at least nudity. Yet there is no real description of love making, fitting the stereotypes about sci-fi writers such as Asimov being unable to really handle sex. The 'science' in it is retarded, not genius. The universe is 6 to the 6th to the 6th dimensions, and they have a ship that can flip a dial and go to any of them, which they do, instantly, and often back and forth again and again, usually in the nick of time to avoid a catastrophe, since one of them has a 6th sense :) By the end, they are going to Oz, and this degrades the book to garbage as far as I am concerned. A sci-fi writer of his fame should have had a better imagination. The very ending is a little bit cool, if you can stand the long boredom between the rather good first part and the next 250 pages :) All in all, it seems a sad case of self-parody cheapening the author, like the Arnold movie Last Action Hero cheapened Arnold by making his character tell people that all action movies are phony and people who like them are dumb, then wanting people to pay to have this told them. :) Still, I sometimes get the unsettling feeling that this is really a brilliant book and is sailing over my head, and one day I might really get it and look dumb :)

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: No Rules Without Exceptions
Review: If I didn't KNOW that Heinlein is a fantastic author, I would never believe it after reading Number Of The Beast. This book is exceptional - in it's boredom. After the first few pages which are at least exciting, although they don't make a whole lot of sense, the novel dissolves into pure boredom. A maddeningly slow storyline revolves mostly around the fact that people should spend their lives naked, no matter how old they are. The worst book I have read in a long, long time. If you want to read Heinlein, read some of his other (and excellent!) stuff such as Glory Road, Starship Troopers, or Stranger In A Strange Land.


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