| Friday |
 ISBN: 034530988x LibraryThing | This is the first Heinlein book I have read in a long time -- since High School in fact. I read this one simply on an impulse, as the back cover description made it sound interesting. Heinlein isn't on the list of authors that I am pursuing at the moment, although I might consider changing that.
This book covers a more complicated Earth than the one we have right now, although in some ways its more simple. The main character Friday doesn't ever seem to have trouble making friends, and portions of the book are just a series of her romantic entanglements. Most of the complexities are political. The story is mostly about a journey, both physical as well as emotional, and interestingly there isn't a consistent opposing force. I suspect that might be unusual, at least for the stuff I read. This book was good, even if the constant romantic entanglements seemed extraneous. Tags for this post: book robert_a_heinlein courier engineered_human hugo nebula prometheus award Related posts: Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow ; Mona Lisa Overdrive; The Diamond Age ; Saturn's Children; Ender's Game; Foundation's Edge ; The Last Colony ; Forever Peace; Count Zero; Rendezvous With Rama; The Forever War; Speaker For The Dead; Red Mars; Old Man's War ; The Ghost Brigades ; Old Man's War (2); The Ghost Brigades (2); Cryptonomicon; Neuromancer; Caves of Steel; Cyteen: The Vindication |
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