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Summary: Bored? Try a different world ...
Review: A 30+year fan recalls:
Glory Road is an excellent choice if you want to introduce someone to the science fiction genre. A high school boyfriend loaned me his copy and I am still hooked on Heinlein.
Have you ever considered if the Salem witches were real, or where they came from? Ever see someone walk around a corner and then they are gone, forever? Heinlein presents some interesting explanations for these and other unexplained events in Glory Road.
After trekking through several strange worlds, Star tells Hero that the only safe path through a swamp forest is made of brick. Hero asks: "Would the bricks happen to be yellow?" Star's response is affirmative. Hmmm.For more connections between what is fiction in our world and reality in another, read "The Number of The Beast"
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Summary: A great example of classic Heinlein
Review: Stories like this one exemplify Heinlein's ability to grab you and lead you through his weird and wonderful worlds with his well-paced prose. Here we get to follow the exploits of one of his alter-egos (complete with sword) as he winds his way through a strange but heroic adventure. This is a great book
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Summary: One of the best straight adventure stories I ever read.
Review: This is a book I have read over and over in the last 20 years.
If you are looking for an exciting adventure story, this is your book.
If you want more depth, following a young man's personal growth,
this also is your book. Every time I read it I come away with
something new. I highly recommend it to readers of all ages.
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Summary: wonderful book, i've read it maybe 20 times thoughout my lif
Review: I first read this book 12years ago.
It's one of the top five I've ever read.
The largest thing i got out of it was not to carry my judgements witrh me when i travel
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Summary: One of Heinlein's best
Review: Of all the Heinlein novels I've read, which is, eh, all the Heinlein novels, I've only read two more than once: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Glory Road. Yes, it contains a large dose of sexism, with jingoism thrown in for good measure, but it's tempered with a wry wit, and even a slight anti-Vietnam attitude. The hero, Oscar, or Evelyn Cyril, is war weary and disillusioned, and seeks a world that is something other than the disappointing lot that this one is. Imaginative and moving through and through, this is one of Heinlein's best.
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Summary: One of the best Heinlein novels!
Review: If you have never read any thing of the Grand Master I would highly recommend "Glory Road". If you like fantasy and dragon slaying type fiction this is it. Not hard core SCFI just some good fantasy fiction.
When a friend gave me this book, I was'nt that interested, I read "Starship Trooper", "Space Cadet" and the other early works of Heinlein and said why not "Glory Road". It has turned into my favorite of his work.
Great action, even some sex ( PG rated) so what's a guy not to like?
Read it soon!
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Summary: Missing the point
Review: It's almost as entertaining to read the reviews (both pro & con)of this book as to read the book itself.
Almost.
Glory Road is not a Sword and Sorcery / fantasy story, nor is it science fiction. It is / was a parable for the 1960's before the 1960's knew what they were about. The tale of a Viet Nam vet finding his way into the bed of the Queen of the Universe is less about adventure and more about the search for meaning in one's life.
What's important and why.
There is much more than meets the eye here and it is unquestionably one of the Maestro's finest efforts. Perhaps made more dear because of his face off with mortality just before writing it. A book that can be read and reread over a lifetime.
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Summary: Seriously?
Review: After reading "Glory Road" it's a joke that anyone would defend Heinlein's as writing strong female characters and not being sexists at all. Aside from the ridiculous plot the characters are barely more than stereotypes. "Scar" is the strong hero and only the strong hero, never expect anything more. Rufo is the unhappy third wheel. Star, oh where to begin with her. Nothing like having a female character that's body is the main description and focus of the character. Maybe it's when Star gets upset that after their clothes are destroyed she can't try on her 'naughty' clothes for Scar. Maybe it's when she talks back to Scar and he threatens to spank her with her own sword; something she repeats in a childlike way.
After reading this book I couldn't believe how many people rush to explain taht Heinlein wasn't sexists at all. No, he was writing about a woman in charge and in power. To be fair Star does end up in a strong occuption, but that hardly excuses the first 2/3 of the novel of her being naked, Scar going on and on about how he wants to have sex with her and how beautiful she is, and her pathetic role as sex object throughout their trip. At least unlike, "Stranger in a strange land" there wasn't a line that said that women's were partly to blamed for being raped. If only people would get over their awe of this guy to realize what he's saying.
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Summary: The best sword fight ever...
Review: I think Heinlein wrote this book for one reason..the duel to the death scene. Granted the rest of the story sorta drags but I slogged through it and was rewarded with an epic dueling scene that inspires me 30 years later. At least wait until you have read that part before you put this book away. I'm also inspired by the host of reviews for all of Heinleins books here at Amazon. I'm always greeted with blank stares when I mention my favorite author and its heartwarming to see MY thoughts being written by so many others...Thanks
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Summary: reprint of an engaging fantasy
Review: After spending time being shot at in Viet Nam, former soldier E. C. "Scar" Gordon rests and recuperates on the French Riviera. After being shook up by seeing the most beautiful woman he ever seen, Scar answers a strange ad for employment in which some of the perquisite skills are courage, in your early to mid twenties, perfect health, and willingness to travel, etc. Intrigued and needing work, Scar answers the weird ad.---
The employer turns out to be the woman from the beach. After struggling with her name Scar calls her Star while she calls him O-scar. The job is to protect her as she searches universes for the Egg of the Phoenix. Oscar accepts the assignment as he has no family that will miss him; the pay is great and a chance to see exotic locations while accompanying a gorgeous woman who claims she is the empress of twenty universes. Of course he figures nothing can be as dangerous as Nam where you do not know friend from foe. Oscar will learn otherwise rather quickly as he travels at unheard of speeds (at least on earth) across dangerous space battling dragons, ogres, and villains oh my.---
This is a reprint of an engaging fantasy with some science fiction elements that readers will enjoy. The story line moves faster than Star can traverse the universes. Scar is a wonderful protagonist whose war weary bones perk up for cash and a beautiful princess. Though having a somewhat early 1960s feel to the plot that seems strangely like "ancient ism", fans will enjoy Robert Heinlein's homage to the masters who influenced his style.---
Harriet Klausner
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