For Us, The Living by R. Heinlein

DaveK's picture

Unless you're completing a Heinlein collection or are studying him this is not a book to buy. It does have some interesting history about RH but you can get that elsewhere or borrow this from a library.

The book reads like a poorer written version of his later work (it was his first novel) with an economics lesson thrown in (I skipped most of that). I had thought that Heinlein turned into a dirty old man in the 60's but this proves he started that way. Either he couldn't get that published until the late 60's or I was limited to my high school's library which wouldn't carry that sort of stuff.

Next is Nymphos of Rocky Flats, I'm half way through and so far so good.

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