Reviews

• Interminable

  The endless sex scenes, with the endless idolization of Lazarus Long, who is endlessly justifying his reasons for sleeping with endless women, including his mother are not nauseating, they’re BORING. Unlike most other Heinlein I’ve read, there is no sense of the relation to a greater moral universe in the lead character’s journey. You can pass on this one.

  By AlexCarney121

• The Witching Hour (audio)

  This was awful, a waste of time and money. So much was cut from the original book that the story made little sense, and the person recording it read so fast, there was no inflection to make it sound real.HelankaScifiMimi

  By Disenchanted Reader

• A sweeping saga, but alas dated and cliché

  It is almost a portrait of a post-war picket-fence fantasy world, translated in endless time and space (via immortality and space travel). The mercurial Lazarus would be more interesting if he learnt a thing or two in his 2000 years of survival, and all his descendents seem to have inherited his self-serving and limited vision of women. Then again, Heinlein is a giant of sci-fi, and worth a read if anything to understand his own background.

  By FromTheShowFloor

• I've fallen in love with Heinlein again.

  I've loved Heinlein since high school too many years ago and he's still just as good. I would have read twice as much about dear OLD Lazarus. However, the editing on the ebook was poorly done. I know some of those words couldn't be what Robert wrote (but I no longer have my paperback to compare to). Spell-checker is fine for some stuff but have a competent flesh & blood read it, too.

  By Barbara Martin

• Not worth the time

  I got this because others had rated it highly and gushed about its greatness. It isn't. The story is tedious and slow, the characters are profoundly shallow, and the myriad quotes are as often misquotes of others as they are dated and cliche. This one is not worth your time. A true disappointment from a great.

  By traipse

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