My Account My Purchases Advanced Search Browse. Publication date is Heinlein's 80th birthday. To Sail beyond the Sunset by Heinlein, Robert A. And far from being admirable, his characters are virtually moronsthey are totally closed, the world can teach them nothing. Heinlein seems to be on a mission, but he has made his message unpalatable. While spewing out homilies on the proper conduct of life, they are generally engaging in activities more appropriate to a tale involving the Jukes or the Kallikaks. The heroine, born in 1882, engages in what Heinlein imagines to be clever, iconoclastic conversation with her father before the turn of the 20th century, and later with husbands, friends and offspring they are all so smug and self-righteous it sets the teeth on edge. As the heroine, Maureen Johnson Long, says after one of many incestuous encounters: "What the world needs is more loving, sweaty and friendly and unashamed." One way or another this idea is endlessly repeated, out of the mouths of any number of the absurd characters populating this novel. For although there's a science fiction story here, involving time travel, alternate history and super-longevity, the true subject of the book is sex. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. F the subtitle, "Being the Memoirs of a Somewhat Irregular Lady," evokes Fanny Hill, it's no accident. The figures we meet towards the end of 'The Number of the Beast' connect to the characters in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and To Sail Beyond the Sunset. Heinlein 11,010 ratings, 3.88 average rating, 239 reviews To Sail Beyond the Sunset Quotes Showing 1-14 of 14 But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking.
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