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Bezig met laden... For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs (2004)door Robert A. Heinlein
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  jntjesussaves | Feb 18, 2024 |   Unreadable except for historical interest. (  )2  ChrisRiesbeck | Jan 28, 2023 |  ) AZBob1951 | Oct 27, 2021 | Not to say there's nothing worth discussing about it. (I will be doing a proper review as part of my Virginia Edition series.) [a:William H. Patterson, Jr.|28589|William H. Patterson Jr.|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1350060046p2/28589.jpg] is right that it includes kernels of what was to come in Heinlein's later work. But who wants kernels? I want the fully popped corn, salted and buttered, with a handful of M&Ms thrown in for kicks and giggles... (  ) octoberdad | Dec 16, 2020 | This book doesn't really have much of a plot at all. A guy from 1939 ends up in the far future and has to deal with the changes in the society. That's about it. Some of the customs are interesting (and I wouldn't mind if they were true now), like the concept of public and private spheres. By custom, no one intrudes on another's private sphere. An implication of this is that public figures' private lives are just that, private. It can be very preachy at times, like in his discussion of economics and how our economic system doesn't work (and it attempts to prove that it doesn't). This kind of thing is somewhat interesting but can be tedious. All told, I wouldn't recommend it to any but Heinlein fans. (  ) tjl | Jan 2, 2020 |
Written around 1939 and predating his first published novel by a decade. Heinlein's first science fiction novel is a gripping story of a man catapulted into a time not his own, as well as a keen examination of freedom both personal and political. Onderscheidingen
Fiction.
Science Fiction.
HTML: From Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein comes a long-lost first novel, written in 1939, introducing ideas and themes that would shape his career and define the genre that is synonymous with his name. July 12, 1939: Perry Nelson is driving along the palisades when another vehicle swerves into his lane, a tire blows out, and his car careens off the road and over a bluff. The last thing he sees before his head connects with the boulders below is a girl in a green bathing suit, prancing along the shore. When he wakes, the girl in green is a woman dressed in furs, and the sun-drenched shore has been replaced by snowcapped mountains. The woman, Diana, rescues Perry from the bitter cold and takes him to her home to rest and recuperate. Later they debate the cause of the accident, for Diana is unfamiliar with the concept of a tire blowout and Perry cannot comprehend snowfall in mid-July. Then Diana shares with him a vital piece of information: the date is now January 7, the year 2086. When his shock subsides, Perry begins an exhaustive study of global evolution over the past 150 years. He learns, among other things, that a United Europe was formed; the military draft was completely reconceived; banks became publicly owned and operated; and in the year 2003, two helicopters destroyed Manhattan in a galvanizing act of war. But education brings with it inescapable truthsâ??the economic and legal systems, the government, and even the dynamic between men and women remain alien to Perry, the customs of the new day continually testing his mental and emotional resolve. Yet it is precisely his knowledge of a bygone era that will serve Perry best, as the man from 1939 seems destined to lead his newfound peers even further into the future than they could have imagined. A classic example of the future history that Robert Heinlein popularized during his career, For Us, the Living marks both the beginning and the end of an extraordinary arc comprising the political, social, and literary crusading that is his legacy. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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After a man swerves off of the road in 1939, he awakens to a strange number of peculiarities before him, among them a strange attractive woman who shares with him that he is now living in the year 2086. Recommend.
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