The Number of the Beast (Audiobook)

from Murphy-Jacobs

This is the last Heinlein book I read to the end. I was probably about 18, finally legal yet really not an adult -- but working on it. Heinlein's books had informed a lot of my teen age thinking and I expected little different in this particular tome, which was supposed to tie up a lot of the dan...

from joeldinda

Painful to (re)read. Some more or less random comments follow. At one level this book's an adventure story, but it's pretty incoherent--just a bunch of episodes, for the most part. A couple are pretty good; especially the bit set in Oz. It's also a parallel universe story. The framework's decentl...

from 5hrdrive

Heinlein comes up with a terrific idea for a "continua" machine, able to instantaneously transit to any time or place. He then proceeds to go absolutely nowhere with the idea. Honestly, for 511 pages nothing happens! Well, actually everyone gets upset at everyone else (repeatedly) and then a big ...

from JohnFair

When Zeb Carter is propositioned at a party by an incredibly beautiful young woman, he's flattered even when he finds out she got him confused with his cousin Zeb Carter (There's a will involved...) - she's very beautiful! Nor is she too disappointed :-) Deety's father Jake is about to get into a...

from Unreachableshelf

Not among my very favorite of Heinlein's books, I still found this to be an enjoyable read. It does fall apart a little during the last section, L'Envoi, and I spent a lot of time wanting to throw something heavy at Jacob for repeatedly deciding that he was being an idiot and planning to reform w...