Title: Will be a clasic some day
Review: Heinlein, at his best, was probably the best pure storyteller of the twentieth century, and he is at his best here. The characters are delightful, especially Lummox, and the story just flows. You want to read it in one sitting, and sometimes I do.Heinlein, at his worst, was an annoying ideologue, and he avoids that here, simply letting the story tell itself. That is not to say there's no lesson here. Oh, no! You leave this book thoughtful. About pride, pretension, and the folly of underestimating those who aren't "like us", among other things.But don't be scared off by that. This is "juvenile" Heinlein at his best, which means it's juvenile only insofar as its protagonists are young. People will be reading this (willingly!) When his "adult" fiction is forgotten. My highest recommendation.
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