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Summary: Heinlien at his most demented
Review: Although this is not a masterwork by the master of Sci-Phi, it is a very thought provoking book. Take a dirty old man who wants to die, put him in the body of his favorite sectretary (11 on a scale of 1-10), and mix. One of Heinlien's first anti-bible belt novels, it challenges the morals of American society. Although the ending was weak, the charachters are well thought out. Not recomended for children.
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Summary: One of the best books of Heinlein!
Review: This is just GREAT book! Try to read this. Beleive me you'lllike it!
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Summary: only sci-fi romance novel I ever read
Review: This book was absolutely horrible. The very beginning was interesting, especially when Johann was still Johann and being a real head-strong individual. After that, the book was total crap. It turned into a dialogue about who kissed whom, why it was done, whether or not it was good, whether or not Johann-Eunice should have sex with one person or another, and on and on and on. Then toward the ending, Jake arrives in their head with no reasoning or justification whatsoever. The final thing that tore it for me was the exchange of Joan with the beaurocrat who reviews her entrance to Luna. The whole thing about her parting with him as "friends" and getting her good-bye kiss just made me absolutely ill. This book's ideas became boring and repetitive real fast, and it turned into a sappy-crappy romance novel.
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Summary: Please don't let this be your first Heinlein book
Review: I've read the majority of Heinlein's work over the past 10 years (in fact, "Revolt in 2100" was my first sci-fi book), and "I Will Fear No Evil" is the worst. It is here that Heinlein sets the tone he followed for all his later books: two one-dimensional characters -- the gruff, wise man who's always right, and the self-obsessed woman who always needs protection from her man -- lots of meaningless sex, and some claptrap about how great life was in the 1920's (when Heinlein came of age). Heinlein's early work (1930's through 1960's) is superb, and I recommend it all as some of the most creative, original writing around. But please, if you want to begin Heinlein, don't start with "I Will Fear No Evil." And if you are a devoted Heinlein fan (as I am) and want to stay that way, skip this book.
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Summary: Haunting
Review: I recently found out about amazon.com through a friend. I read "I Will Fear no Evil" over 20 years ago and loaned it out - never to be returned. It has remained a touch stone for me - an avid reader - I hope when I can devour it once again it gives to me what I've been searching for.
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Summary: This is my all-time favorite Heinlein book
Review: The delicate task of a man's mind transplanted into a woman's body is helped by the beautiful woman's co-inhabiting mind. Described tactfully but fearlessly by the master.
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Summary: Not the best Heinlein, but good sci-fi.
Review: This is one of my least favorite Heinlein books -- but that still puts it head and shoulders above most science fiction. (Heinlein was ill, and unable to fully edit and revise this book before its publishing deadline. His wife, Virginia, did her best -- but it's still rough in parts).
The plot concerns an ancient businessman who cheats death by having his brain transplanted into a donor body. It isn't until after the operation that he finds out the donor was his favorite secretary (killed by a mugger) ...and he can still hear her voice inside his head. For most of the rest of the book, Heinlein leaves it up in the air whether the internal dialogs between the two are fantasy delusions, or true conversations -- but it's still pretty entertaining to read the progression of an old man learning to be a young woman. This book is science fiction in that it postulates the possibility of a brain transplant -- but it's also got a well-thought-out background of social extrapolation, set in an America where the citizens who can afford it live an fortified strongholds, while the rest of the country goes to hell in a handbasket. (Not too unlike the setting of _Friday_ ...but that's another review).
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Summary: Captivating, as only the King of Sci-Fi can be!
Review: At the beginning of this book, we see an old man who would almost give anything to die, a man in love with his young secretary, while he in in a bed with tubes and wires connected to him. A very old man who cannot take the pain of living the way he is. He is also very rich and sees a way out....hmmm, what about a 'brain transplant'.
He does not expect to survive it and waits for the day a body donor is found, and has this transition. Nobody expects him to wake up, imagine your surprise when, thinking you are finally going to your death, you wake up bundled in a mass of wires as you were before. Oh the depair! Imagine finding out the body you are now in is not male, but female! Fascinating! Imagine that you find out that the body was donated by the young secretary you were so much in love with. Sobering.
But then you find her soul has made it back to the body and you are coexisting within one body. and now you must fight to keep the identity you are, as well as attempt to become a lady, in mind as well as body.
As we see Heinlein bring our character through the twists and turns of the past of both the old man and the young woman's lives, as well as showing how wonderful it might be to actually be female...a possible recurring theme in Heinlein's works, citing Elizabeth Andrew Jackson Libby Long in other books.
This book's only shortcoming was the death of our hero/heroine which could have bee explored deeper, but it left me thinking about this book for days!
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Summary: Heinlein shines again in this challenging book.
Review: This was the second "meaty" Heinlein book I had read. (By meaty I mean books longer/more complex than _TIme for the Stars_, _Tunnel in the Sky_, etc.) I loved it enough that I'm now on my way to collecting all of the Dean's works. HMMM...About the story. Not the most plausable of Heinlein's works, I mean, the main character DID have a "brain transplant"! Actually, I think that the seeming implausibility of the intial 'hook' helps the reader suspend his/her disbelief for what happens next. Which is a good thing because if you don't get hung up on the 'reality' of the story , you'll find a truly wonderful study of human beings, and most importantly what it means to love. Heinlein's work is not just science-fiction at it's best, it's writing at it's best. It illuminates what it means to be human. AND it's a lot of fun to read!
PS: Not a book I would recomend giving to the younger set. Some might consider parts (large parts) of the book to be quite racy. This is one for the 13+ set. Be advised, eh?
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Summary: The worst book he ever wrote
Review: I loved Heinlein's books, couldn't get enough of them, but I wish he'd never written this one. Sorry.
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