Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!Woody.pasa@XEROX.ARPA From: Woody.pasa@XEROX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Re: Job Message-ID: <13140@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 15:14:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.13140 Posted: Tue Sep 4 15:14:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Sep-84 08:01:10 EDT Lines: 21 Date: 25 Aug 84 18:11:37-PDT (Sat) From: hplabs!hao!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: @ Ucb-Vax.arpa Subject: Re: Job: A Comedy of Justice [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 No, he didn't. Which is supprising; I think Heinlein slipped up there. Fairly un-Heinlein like, I'll admit. I suppose He's back-sliding. From the scrambled remains of - Bill Woody