Heinlein - Friday. Give it a skip.

Feb 12 16:57 UTC 2007

I just finished reading Heinlein's Friday. The book was a huge, huge let down.
It starts off with a bang and then quickly fizzles out into excess verbiage
and idiotic descriptions - very irritating!

It's set in a dystopian future with big conglomerates running the show, with
your usual battalion of politicians, plague, and distant star systems which
are the future off humanity. The only good thing about the whole book is that
it starts off fantastically and picks up in-between, just a wee bit. I
generally like Heinlein for his ideas, but he has a bad habit of trying to
convert his story into a sermon on howto reform the world (okay i do it as
well, but then i'm not paid to jaw and you can always tune out <g>) but the
great start is the trap and it hold you right up to the miserable end. And
the ending is not happy! Ugh!