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... fiction: It's anti-theocracy, but surely one can be that without being atheist?
Anyway, Robert A. Heinlein's Job: A Comedy of Justice is a bitter anti-religion diatribe, as are all (or virtually all) of the works by James Morrow, e.g., most recently, The Last Witchfinde ... JOB: A Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein. A few chapters in and so far, it's okay. ... group's "holy scripture" is interesting to me primarily as a cultural artifact.
I still adore Robert A. Heinlein's Job: A Comedy of Justice for its Twain-like description of heaven. See also Mark Twain's Letters from the Earth for a pithy commentary on the traditional Christian ... Thanks so much for posting the map -- it's terrific. Has anyone read Robert A. Heinlein's JOB: A Comedy of Justice? His description of the Christian heaven and the experiences of the devout Christian who ends up there is terrific.
And there's a terrific story in the collection The Golden ... I just finished re-reading Robert A Heinlein's Job which I had remembered as an interesting study of the nature of God and Satan and the attitudes of humans to Deity. Sadly, this time around, I found it rather shallow. Obviously the book hasn't changed...
Jim The mention of Job: A Comedy of Justice in 17 brings to mind some of Heinlein’s other works. Stranger in a Strange Land definitely had a religious theme. And then there’s the book (of course the title eludes me) about escaping the colony ship whose inhabitants ... I enjoy Job: A Comedy of Justice. Heinlein's idea of religion is somewhat different than others, but it's good food for thought. #29 blackdogbooks: I think I have Job somewhere in my stacks. I'll pull it out. Thanks for the tip.
The weather in Anchorage has been fabulous this week; that is why I haven't been on LT much. It got close to 60 with cloudless skies for four days in a row! Then, suddenly, yesterday, the ... ... for a while
I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall
Intimate Kill by Margaret Yorke
Job, a Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein
The last 3 are all LT recommendations that I am looking forward to reading.
... basis. The few exceptions are A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Double Star and Job A comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein and Billy Budd and White Jacket by Herman Melville I would say I re-read these books again over a two or three ... ... Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, Time Enough for Love, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, I Will Fear No Evil, Job: a Comedy of Justice, Double Star, Farnham's Freehold, Expanded Universe, Farmer in the Sky, For Us, the Living, and possibly others I'm forgetting. So there' ... I'm in, I'm always looking for a new reading challenge, and this will help me knock off some books on my TBR Pile.
Here's the topics/books I've come up with so far...
1001 Books to Read Before I Die:
1. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
2. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
3. Alias Grace by Ma ... I finished Job and now I've started Farnham's Freehold. This is probably going to be the end of the Heinlein kick for a little while. When I have time to read something that isn't for a semester's end project, I'm going to start on Job, which is labeled on the spine as a fantasy, but it's by one of the Grand Masters so I figure it's sort of relevant, here. ...
If I had to pick a period, it would definitely be Early, though I like individual works (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Job: A Comedy of Justice ) and parts of others (Time Enough for Love, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls) from his later years.
(I have a theory that the vast majority ... I finished it yesterday. This is only the second Heinlein I've read, the first having been Job. I picked up a copy of Starship Troopers recently, so I'll have to try that soon.
I really don't have much to say about this book. It was alright, I guess. The protagonist grated on me, and ... > 1 Definitely try Job: A Comedy of Justice and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress . . . the best of Heinlein's later (post-1960) work IMHO.
They're two of the Heinlein titles I recommend to "everyone" who's new to his work. The other three being . . .
Double Star
The Door into Summer
... I recommend Starship troopers because it's a classic, Job : a comedy of justice because it's brilliant, and Friday because it has the distilled essence of all of Heinlein's female characters.
I must echo >2 Job, a Comedy. Terrific fun. ... reason. Only the radetsky march was on most library shelves including mine until recently. my public library's copy of job by joseph roth was published in 1931 but apparently not in a very large edition. I know some who think it to be the second greatest novel in the world after pride and ...
I just finished Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein, found it quite a bore. Well written and certainly commenting on religion and society, but frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Then I read Day of the False King by Brad Geagley which was very, very good. wonderful ...
I am reading Job: a Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein. I have read many of his books, but not this one. So far its good.
I was on vacation this week and also had a bad cold, which were both good excuses for some light reading.
Finished:
Job - A Comedy of Justice
Anything Considered
Chasing Cézanne
Swallows and Amazons
Of these, my favorite was the Heinlein book. The two Peter Mayle books were fun, ... I'm reading Heinlein's Job: A Comedy of Justice (funny and thought-provoking), China: Alive in the Bitter Sea (informative and well-written) and Red Sox Journal: Year by Year and Day by Day with the Boston Red Sox Since 1901 (which, since I'm in the early 30s' right now, is depressing).
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