Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou2a.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hou2a!argo From: argo@hou2a.UUCP (W.GARRETT) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Flaming at Heinlein Message-ID: <249@hou2a.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 22:14:01 EST Article-I.D.: hou2a.249 Posted: Fri Feb 3 22:14:01 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 05:14:30 EST References: <507@pucc-h> Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 21 WHAT!!! "I will fear no evil" will last?!!! That has got to be one of the worst books I have ever read, and as I've read a good deal of Heinlein's other works, that's saying something. I thoroughly enjoyed about the first 50 pages of this book, up until Johann Smith became Joan, at which point it degenerated into, uh ... well, I can't think what it became, but certainly not a good book. One thing I have noticed about Heinlein is his absolute inability to handle anticlimax. For that matter, he doesn't do an especially good job with the climax either, but it is his ridiculously long and boring anticlimaxes that truly stand out. To give him his due, what very little he deserves, I have found some of his short stories have hit the lower bounds of mediocrity, and one or two actually approach decency, but that is as far as I will go. Contact has been made, Andrew Garrett