Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:Joseph.Henr@Xerox.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:Joseph.Henr@Xerox.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: RE: The Number of the Beast Message-ID: <1055@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 20:55:59 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.1055 Posted: Tue Mar 26 20:55:59 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 28-Mar-85 00:49:18 EST Sender:  0$PA@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 30 From: Brenda >>It's awful. Wretched, not worth the paper, and so on. I am a great >>fan of Heinlein, and I guarantee no sane human could like this book.... FLAME HIGH ----- Well, its always nice to know what other people think of you, even when they've never met you!! I think we should leave personal attacks out of the reviews on this DL. While it does illustrate the extent of your feelings, I think that another way could be found -- one that does not insult or degrade other human beings who have as much right to their opinions as you do to yours. FLAME OFF ----- Anyway, about TNOTB -- I liked it, all except the ending. It was definitely not Heinlein's best, probably the worst, but it had its moments. The encounter of two of my all-time favorite protagonists and the alternate universes made reading this book worthwhile for me. It is obviously written for the author, much in the same way Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions was his 50th (40th?) birthday present to himself. If you have never read any Heinlein, I would not reccomend you read TNOTB first. Anything earlier is fantastic (yes, I admit it -- I'm a Heinlein fan), and Friday is definitely better, although still not up to his usual standards. JOB, however, is fantastic and by far one of the best books ~Brenda