Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usceast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted From: ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: RAH : FRIDAY Message-ID: <2195@usceast.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 23:52:28 EDT Article-I.D.: usceast.2195 Posted: Fri Apr 26 23:52:28 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 29-Apr-85 00:20:54 EDT References: <1730@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: ted@usceast.UUCP (System Programmer) Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia Lines: 31 Summary: In article <1730@topaz.ARPA> @RUTGERS.ARPA:Newman.pasa@Xerox.ARPA writes: >From: Newman.pasa@Xerox.ARPA > >The thing that I found most annoying about FRIDAY was that it seemed as >thought Heinlein had an idea for a novel, and wrote it, but he couldn't >end the story well. Then he remembered this little short story idea that >he couldn't sell (for good reason) so he changed the short story around >a bit and made it into the ending for the novel. > >I am not saying that this was how it really happened, just that this is >how I imagined it happening after reading the book! Did anyone else >notice the huge discontinuity? > Another thing that has been worrying me a little lately, it that the ending of _Friday_ (starting with her off planet mission I think) had a fatal plot flaw in it. The reason it worries me, is because I can't remember what it is now! But I'm not kidding, at the time I caught it, I saw that it made the motivation for her last mission completely implausible. Did anyone else see it, and WHAT THE HECK WAS IT?! They say the memory is the first thing to uh.. Ted Nolan ..usceast!ted -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Nolan ...decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted (UUCP) 6536 Brookside Circle ...akgua!usceast!ted Columbia, SC 29206 allegra!usceast!ted@seismo (ARPA, maybe) ("Deep space is my dwelling place, the stars my destination") -------------------------------------------------------------------------------