Re: [book_talk] book review - Robert A. Heinlein
- From: Audrey <waterdiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 02:35:21 -0500
I will have to get that one. I really like Heinlein.
Right now I'm in the middle of Utopia, by Lincoln Child. Audrey
> On Apr 11, 2014, at 1:31 PM, "Bonnie L. Sherrell" <blslarner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> _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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