Het pad van roem
ISBN:
9789029039147 (9029039140)
Publish date: 1976
Publisher: Meulenhoff
Pages no: 286
Edition language: Dutch
Typical male adolescent fantasy where a decommissioned soldier, restless in France, signs up for a dangerous mission to rescue a damsel-in-distress.
Glory Road is about the closest Heinlein ever came to writing fantasy--but Heinlein being Heinlein, it's more a bland of sword and sorcery and straight science fiction--alternate universe travel to a reality where American ex-soldier Gordon gets to play knight to a fair princess. It's mostly fun, a...
This book is really two parts - a fantasy romp and then the after happily ever after portion. I read this as a teen, but somehow the second half didn't stick with me at all. Heinlein knew his sword play and proves it here, but I didn't enjoy the moral rants and there was far too much talk of spankin...
Pisząc niedawno opinię o dość przeciętnej książce dla młodzieży, dostało mi się, że z niewłaściwej perspektywy oceniam takie książki. Może rzeczywiście powoli tetryczeje już, ale co dobre poznam bez problemowo i dziś opowiem o bardzo dobrej książce przygodowej. Robert A. Heinlein jest wielokrotnym l...
Apparently, this is one of Heinlein's few attempts at fantasy. He does it quite well and it is notable for two things. Firstly, Heinlein cannot resist the need to rationalise the miraculous. Magic arises from a more advanced mathematics and science than our own. Secondly, we see this fantastic world...