Time Enough For Love

**RockyR** · 14th October 04, 01:40 PM

Have any of you heard of this book? It is a novel written by Robert A. Heinlein my postal carrier told me about today when he saw me in my kilt.

http://www.bbc.net.uk/dna/h2g2/A650369

Must be special at these prices!
http://www.thebookcellar.com/main/in...+Heinlein&pub=

Any how The mail man said the main Charcter "Lazurus Long" said a kilt was very useful for hiding a weapon.. I told the mail man that I don't know that I would call it a weapon..

He got a good laugh at least....

**mcnice** · 14th October 04, 03:22 PM

thats a good one john ;)

for sure an interesting book but for the money, you know what i would better invest in...

**Sciuropterus** · 14th October 04, 04:43 PM

I read it as a teenager. That book is the main reason I wear a kilt.

**bubba** · 14th October 04, 04:56 PM

Read all of the Long family stories. Read "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" sometime.

**Avonlea22** · 14th October 04, 05:33 PM

Ok, is this the same book?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...877998-1972654

Certainly is a lot cheaper if it is!

**Sciuropterus** · 14th October 04, 06:31 PM

The first book starring the kilt-wearing hero is called "Methuselah's Children". "Time Enough for Love" and "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" follow. The last book is great, but you will appreciate it even more if you are familiar with Heinlein's other books, as it mentions characters from nearly all of them.
Sometimes I think Robert Heinlein raised me into adulthood, for better or worse. There is one story in TEfL that is a real tear-jerker, even after repeated readings.

**RockyR** · 14th October 04, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Avonlea22

Ok, is this the same book?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...877998-1972654

Certainly is a lot cheaper if it is!

Appears to be. Now you all have me interested. I am not a fictionn reader at all, so much truth to learn but I must say I am starting to get intrigued.

**bubba** · 14th October 04, 06:56 PM

Another good one is The Cat Who Walked Through Walls. Another in the Long family chronicals. Just too bad the hero is a Campbell <G>

**flyv65** · 11th October 05, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by bubba

Another good one is The Cat Who Walked Through Walls.

Don't forget Stranger in a Strange Land...it taught me to grok individuality.

Bryan...and I read Starship Troopers in junior high-much better than the (crappy) movie...

**Sciuropterus** · 11th October 05, 07:11 PM

I heard that a movie of Stranger in a Strange Land was under consideration. I think Owen Wilson would be great in the lead, with someone like Sean Connery as Jubal Harshaw.

As I mentioned before, Heinlein is why I always liked kilts.

Time Enough for Love influenced me considerably- it was only fitting that our 5-month old daughter Dora got her name from that book.