Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hao!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Job: A Comedy of Justice Message-ID: <499@gloria.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Aug-84 21:11:37 EDT Article-I.D.: gloria.499 Posted: Sat Aug 25 21:11:37 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Aug-84 11:11:53 EDT References: <23@vice.UUCP> Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 10 [Feast if you can and eat if you dare] What I should like to know is: do the characters spend a lot of time on long-winded political and social discussions? My chief reservation about Heinlein's previous works is that his characters pontificate ad nauseam. (Extreme example: _Time Enough for Love_, in which Heinlein had to insert extra segments to hold all the protagonist's "wisdom.") -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel