reading (Friday)

I finished re-reading "Friday" in a marathon session last night. Why does that "oh, just a little bit more" even come into my head? I turned the last page and turned off the light just before midnight with a raging headache from eyestrain. Silly person.

Anyway, I last read "Friday" so long ago that I'd forgotten most of the plot. Occasionally I'd come upon a bit that I remembered, but on the whole it was a new book for me.

All the Heinlein favorites are here, beautiful people with marvelous brains and exotic professions, political commentary, social commentary, group marriages, reproductive fetish, and action. The social and political commentary take a back seat to the action plot, which works. Heinlein lets the reader and his main character stop and breath every now and then, but not much.

( Major spoilers and squick potential... )

Pet peeve: Heinlein loves group marriages and he likes to have women love each other, but he's definitely go that 70's sensibility about it. It's okay if the girls love each other and cuddle, but they aren't really that way, they really prefer men most of the time. Why? Why are all the group marriages so conspicuously heterosexual-couple-centric?

28. Robert A. Heinlein "Friday"