Type of bind: Hardcover
Label: Del Rey
Manufacturer: Del Rey
Page Count: 311
Printing Date: 1984
Publishing house: Del Rey
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You get to read all the way to mid-chapter XVIII before two very important sentences appear: "(...) Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too. (...)" This book was finished 1984. Its style is superb and its entertainment value immense and it is daring - very daring! Especially devote Christians should read the quote I have given and take it to the heart before starting to read the book itself. It is fiction but fiction by a well educated master wordsmith. Those who might have been unsettled by Pullmann's His Dark Materials should beware; they will be shaken by this. Robert A. Heinlein works on a higher level of literary and theological competency and does not whimp out in the end. He gets more drastically! As his protagonist goes through trials of faith, scripture itself is used to unsettle protagonist and reader as well. Skill and knowledge should not lead the reader to forget that it is still fiction, mesmerizing fiction at that. It is thought provoking and may provoke anger as well. Ponder this before you start reading because once you started it will be hard to put it down. I read it in one day. Heinlein adds the word devine in front of the words conspiracy theory and plays it to the end with surprises around every corner. He has gone where Dante Alligeri went but from the other side of the spectrum and as Dante's Devine Comedy Heinlein's Comedy of Justice is also a masterpiece.
I wish I could give 4.5 stars in the rating - I will settle for 4 right now.
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