To Sail beyond the Sunset
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780441748600 |
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| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication date: | 06/01/1988 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 448 |
| Sales rank: | 203,471 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.92(w) x 4.24(h) x 1.21(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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To Sail Beyond the Sunset
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Heinlein is a great writer, he gets you involved in the story. I also like how he has recurring players in his other novels. this book ties alot of his books together with his characters and his story. This is one of the books I had a hard time putting down. It a great science fiction book and is a great one to have in your library to read again and again. after all a good book is like a good friend, you don't mind seeing them again.
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To Sail Beyond the Sunset is a wonderfully crafted book that reviews in detail the life of Maureen Johnson, the mother of many other Heinlein characters. It is witty and involved, staying true to Heinlein's style. It is a wonderful insight into the lives of other Heinlein characters, and also into his own life.
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This book runs parallel to the last part of "Time Enough for Love" but it is told from the point of view of Maureen Johnson Smith (Lazarus Long's Mother/Lover) It's a great read. You should not read this book before you read "Time Enough for Love" else it won't make any sense. It's just wonderful. Like I said, though, the Lazarus Long stories are Heinlein's best works in my opinion.
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My favorite book of all time. Follows the story of Maureen Johnson.
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A lot of people dislike TSBS but RAH's description of the early 20th century (the time of his youth) is great.
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Not already a Heinlein fan? Then move along. There's nothing to see here.
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Heinlein's style is so distinctive that even reading one of his books for the first time gives one a feeling of nostalgia for almost any of his other works. True to form, while the story is told from the perspective of the mother of the recurring character Lazarus Long (who does appear in these pages), the characters are uniformly witty, intelligent, rational, and unabashedly sensual, with little regard for many traditional societal taboos. While the most likely classification for this novel would be science fiction, it's fairly light on futuristic themes. Time traveling is of some importance to the plot, but most of the story is akin to Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury - a fond look back at what it might have been like to live through the early and mid-1900s in middle America. Certainly an enjoyable read, and a fine addition to his body of work.
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One of my absolute favorites! Yes, read the other Lazarus Long books first so you know the characters.
Then go find The Number of the beast, which not only contains some of LL's friends but if you are a long time
and prolific reader, you will find characters from Wonderland, Oz, Larry Niven, Asimov, Burrough's John Carter
series and a few other fun, awful, and memorable books and authors. Four people we don't know must run from
truly bad guys in a personal spaceship, but they have a scientisr with a time machine. When they wind up
meeting John Carter things get curious. Each write down 3 favorite books, all think of one and wind up in couple
of airless dark worlds and then also find the ones I mentioned earlier. Story is fun and the ending fabulous. You
either like RAH or you don't. If you do, ignore those fuddyy duddies!
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There is a good story in this book. Unfortunately it gets bogged down in more and more of the free-love that RAH seemed obsessed with later in his life. If you've read the other books in the Lazarus Long series you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't go read the others first because this is the last. This one is about Maureen, LL's mother, and is essentially told from one sexual encounter to the next until near the end. Worse, even more so than in the other books, the sex gets downright disturbing as it moves casually into incest between parents and their teenage children, brothers and sisters, etc. All of that said, if you're a fan of the LL series you'll need to get through this book to wrap things up. The sex-obsession aside, Maureen's life is rather interesting, and the end is the happy fairy-tale ending we've all been secretly hoping for for these people, even 'fixing' some of the tragic endings in some of the other books.
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I found this book to be quite intriguing; also very hard to put down. When I first saw this book on the shelf of my high school library, read the back of it, let me tell you, I was caught, HOOK, LINE, and SINKER! I would suggest this book to just about anyone.
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If you are new to RAH avoid this book. It's long, dry, sanctimonious, and generally boring. Especially so if you haven't read the other books in the series. It is meant to give more background information on the character Maureen. It comes off very smug and self-satisfied. It's basically a narration of what would happen if Mary Poppins went whoring. It's all told in retrospect. Has a 'and then I did this, then I did that, and everything was perfect' style. I got this feeling that the author used this book (last published during his life) to spout off his views, rather then actually tell a story.
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