About this title: Approaching death, Lazarus Long is convinced to dictate the story of his life. He finds that while he has lived and loved more than most, there are still things that he'd like to experience.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780441810765ISBN:0441810764
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ace Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780441810765ISBN:0441810764
Description: Good+ As issued No Jacket. Spine curl, corner bumps, soilingto the bottom edge of the book, small splits at head and heel of the spine, and other light to moderate shopwear. read more
Edition: 8th Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ace Books, New York
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780441810765ISBN:0441810764
Description: Warhola, James (cover) Very Good- 6¾"-7¾" Tall. Spine slightly creased, some edge wear and rubbing, binding somewhat tight. A nice copy. "Lazarus Long 1916-4272. "The capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein's famous Future History, 'Time Enough for Love' follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it and so in love with Time ... read more
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Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books, New York
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780441810765ISBN:0441810764
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ace
Date Published: 1987-08-15
ISBN-13:9780441810765ISBN:0441810764
Description: Fair. Readers Copy. NO REFUNDS ON READERS COPIES. Yellowed pages, more than normal wear on covers or pages. COULD HAVE TEARS/WATER WAVES. WILL BE READABLE. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ace
Date Published: 1987-08-15
ISBN-13:9780441810765ISBN:0441810764
Description: Good. Edge and corner wear. Creases to cover. Creases to spine. Breaks in spine. Tanning to pages. Pages still readable. Great reading copy. All U.S. orders shipped with tracking number and e-mail confirmation. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780441810765ISBN:0441810764
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. brand new, few minor scratches. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 589 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
"This one took me a loooong time. I first attempted to read it over a year ago (probably closer to two years), but just couldn't get into it. After I finished "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls," I decided to try it again. I was quite busy, working on a film set, but managed to eventually finish it in a little over 10 days (most days I could only read 5-10 pages).
I have no doubt that Heinlein was a skilled writer -- I loved The Cat who Walks Through Walls -- but this one was a little too all-over-the-place for me."
"I refused to give up on this book. I just put down, after 100 or more pages, another book and picked this one up because I had neither the time nor the desire to go to the library. Someone mentioned on this site that it's like reading the ramblings of an overly drunken and perverted Uncle. That's pretty accurate (though I would have said grandfather). Heinlein seems to really challenge the social, sexual and political mores the later he gets in his career. Some things make this a very interesting read and others...well, I admit to skipping a few pages when he droned on about genetics. It took some effort to get to the end, but there are some genuinely good moments in the book. My favorite, though, are the notes from Lazarus' Long's notebook. Whether or not someone thinks he's misogynistic, I can't help but enjoy the male/female relationships. I don't think they're as misogynistic as many believe. Sure, the women are always requesting sex and children, but the men are also very one sided, stubborn and at many times very silly (and often subservient) to the women surrounding them. I only recommend for true blooded fans of Science Fiction. It takes some effort; and don't read before bed unless you want to sleep quickly."
"Any complaints about Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love" that are centered around the absurdity and perversity of a two thousand year old man having sex with every single woman he ever meets, most of whom are descended from him or raised from childhood by him or gave birth to him (!!), are completely valid complaints. As much as I enjoyed this read, Heinlein's obsession with knocking down every possible sexual barrier got a little hard to swallow after a while and kept me from rating this a five-star novel.
That I still gave it four stars testifies to how engaging Heinlein's signature character, Lazarus Long, is. Since his introduction (which I read in the "The Past Through Tomorrow" collection), I've always been captivated by the long-lived, sage, straight-talking know-it-all (even when Heinlein called him Jubal Harshaw), and he makes a great protagonist for the various tales collected in this pseudo-novel. 'Pseudo' because even though there is a clear through-line for Long and the extended family he builds for himself over the couse of this work, Lazarus spends the bulk of the novel telling stories about other periods in his two-millineum long life, set on various planets, which allows him to play around with different genres. Kind of like how the writers of the old Star Trek series could have Enterprise stumble onto a Gangster planet if they had a notion to tell a gangster story.
The two standout stories for me involved a Western-style story about life as a pioneer on a barely settled planet, and his time-travel story, where Lazarus travels back to the early 20th century to meet his family. Both of these stories hooked me as they had a distinctly historical feel to them, and I guess I was just in that kind of mood.
The portions of the book that take place in a more recognizable future are also quite enjoyable, reading like everything else Heinlein writes. Revolutionary characters pushing against whatever society they find themselves a part of, making a case for living life to its fullest and giving into all of your basest desires, because you only live once, and if you're not hurting anyone, then why the hell not? That Heinlein uses Lazarus and the Howard families (a two thousand year old man and a family genetically bread for long life) to make a case for the brevity of life and living every moment to its fullest just makes it all the more interesting.
For those that say this work is mysogenistic, I guess I can almost see where you're coming from, but in all fairness, all of the characters in this novel are pervy and sex-obsessed. Heinlein seems to want very badly to paint sex as something that people shouldn't obsess about, and should be talked about and dealt with and undertaken as freely as you wish. This goes for both the men and the women. It just so happens that the primary character is a most alpha of alpha-males. This, combined with the fact that he crams so many sexually based situations upon his characters kind of leads one to the opposite conclusion: that Heinlein himself is obsessed with sex. Which he probably is.
In spite of this, the novel is still an epic, sweeping, romantic read that collects a number of captivating ideas into one volume. A self-admittedly flawed, but still fascinating protagonist, and Heinlein's artistry with language make this a very satisfying read for fans of his particular brand of sprawling sci-fi."
Time Enough for Love was my first Lazarus Long book by Heinlein that I read. My problems with this book are numerous. Heinlein hits upon several very interesting issues in this book. Included in this are polygamy, incest, the rise and fall of societies, immortality, computer evolution, and establishing colonial frontiers to name just a few.
On the whole, I felt that this book tried to do too many different things and deterred itself from the more compelling themes. Lazarus Long was a man who wanted to-
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-establishment of colonial frontiers was another interesting concept presented in the book. The book did a wonderful job to show that no matter how advanced things are in the future, you often times will have to toss the technology aside to reduce how much weight you have to carry. Survival is the most important fact.
However, when compared to the casually discussed description of the fall of Earth-
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- I found it would have best been included.
Another issue with the book is the often choppy jumps in plots. Be it from the removed sections of OMITTED text or from what are supposed to be intentional, none OMITTED jumps. The story that I liked in Time Enough for Love is the story of a man who has done everything and is bored. He meets an interesting computer named Minerva and, in the course of figuring out what to do, Minerva decides to go into the body of a genetically created women. This was intriguing.
However, what Heinlein thought was more interesting was his attempt to break down the taboo of incest and polygamy. The approach for focusing on both of these lost me along the way with the dozens of other parts to this book. Come the conclusion of the story, Heinlein failed to convince me to the breaking of any of these taboos when he might have had some success in the way he has had with other books.
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