[book_talk] book review - Robert A. Heinlein
- From: "Bonnie L. Sherrell" <blslarner@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 10:31:30 -0800
_Glory Road_
by Robert A. Heinlein
read by Bronson Pinchot
E. C. Gordon, known to many as "Easy" due to his football career in
high school and college and his dislike of his given names of Evelyn
Cyril and to others as "Scar," had survived a tour as an "advisor" in
Vietnam and was now in France, living on a nudist island off the
Riviera and commuting at times to Nice to pick up mail or get money
from American Express, when he saw the advertisement inviting someone
who was not a coward to apply in person for a career of danger and
adventure. Somehow he felt that the advertisement was intended for
him, and he was somehow not surprised to find out that the beautiful
woman who examined and hired him was the one he'd encountered on his
island but a few days previously. Now he was off to a different world
to face down an Iglee, whatever that might be, and dragons,
accompanying the woman he called Star and her apparent butler named
Rufo, off on the Glory Road to retrieve the Egg of the Phoenix from a
reportedly impenetrable black tower where it was guarded by something
described as the Eater of Souls. Would the three of them survive? And
how did a nice guy from the States expect to understand the ways and
customs of at least twenty different universes to which he now had
access?
This book, which was released not long after the success of Heinlein's
more famous "Stranger in a Strange Lane," was reportedly the only
sword-and-sorcery book that Heinlein indulged in, and is in turns
exciting, funny, and pointed. I got it through Audible, and enjoyed it
thoroughly.
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise
cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
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