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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. JudithProctor | Sep 15, 2008 |   Haven't read this one but I love Heinlein in general. If you like Sci -fi, try it. nitalaabs | Jul 31, 2008 |  hyperpat | Dec 12, 2007 | 2006 I tried to read this book – for a while, it was a bedtime book for my son, and I read parts of it by myself after he lost interest. In the end, though, I decided not to throw good time after bad, and I gave up. I just didn’t find it at all engaging – the characters annoyed me, and the story seemed kind of, well, lame. Maybe this is a gem in disguise and I just didn’t “get” it, but I found this book highly disappointing. (  )herebedragons | Jan 17, 2007 | The story of a boy and his pet. His very big pet from outer space. (  )szarka | Apr 6, 2006 | 0.073 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345314689, Mass Market Paperback)Lummox had been the Stuart family pet for years. Though far from cuddly and rather large, it had always been obedient and docile. Except, that is, for the time it had eaten the secondhand Buick . . .But now, all of a sudden and without explanation, Lummox had begun chomping down on a variety of things -- not least, a very mean dog and a cage of virtually indestructible steel. Incredible! John Thomas and Lummox were soon in awfully hot water, and they didn't know how to get out. And neither one really understood just how bad things were -- or how bad the situation could get -- until some space voyagers appeared and turned a far-from-ordinary family problem into an extraordinary confrontation. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:55 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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There's also details that I only notice now that I'm much older than when I first read it. In 1954 when this book was written, having an extremely competent black African in charge of international affairs would have seemed radical - nowadays, we, happily, take such things as normal. (