by Robert A. Heinlein
I read this the year it came out, when I was in my Heinlein phase. I do believe that I selected the book mainly on the titillating cover, but I think it would attract any adolescent SF reader. And, yes, compared to his works like [b:The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress|3274505|The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress|R...
Technically, I didn't invoke the Nancy Pearl 50-page rule so much as drop the book in disgust.I was told that this book had a kickass heroine (by my mother, I think), so I picked it up. I think I lasted about twenty pages. I was following the plot just fine, and then Friday gets raped. And she's ...
Friday was the first Heinlein novel I read. Late period Heinlein tended to be long on softcore sexual tease and it is far from his best work, but it did lead me to seek out his better novels such as Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
I read this in high school (the cover really helps these star ratings). If I were to reread this today (which I have no desire to do), I would give it 2 stars, mostly for the ending (which reduces the eponymous Friday to a barefoot-and-pregnant housewife of one of the men who raped her in the first ...
SF adventure story that always reads as sexist to me. Check out the vacant eyed bimbo on the cover or, failing that the quote on the back "Friday is all woman. She is as strong and resourceful and decisive as any Heinlein hero; in addition she is loving (oh, yes) and tender and very, very female." ...
Diary entry from 1999..
There, Jayme, you want embarrassing admissions? I read this book like ten times in high school.For the dirty parts, obviously, which were pretty much all of them.Once again, a testament to our ability to grow up more or less normal even despite the weird shit we were exposed to during puberty. This...
supergenius with pattern recognition skillz becomes a farmer and mommy, plehI loved this the first time but a reread showed that heinlein got pretty much everything about being a woman wrong.2009
Not as good as Saturday.
Frankly, this is where Heinlein started to lose it. While Friday is an interesting character, she's all that holds this novel together, as the society and world-building is rather half-assed, and there are some parts that will make you want to throw the book across the room. I still liked it better ...
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