Saturday, August 10, 2013

Book Review: I WIll Fear No Evil


This is the second Heinlein book I have read.  I did not find this as enjoyable as the first.  This review above of this book calls me stupid.  It says intelligent people will really enjoy this book.  I guess I am not intelligent because I didn’t really enjoy it that much.  It is about an old man, who has his brain transplanted into the body of his beautiful young secretary (he did not choose her on purpose, but she was murdered by a blow to the head and they shared the same blood type.)  However, when he does finally wake up, because success with this type of thing is not certain, he finds that her thoughts are still with him.
The book is consumed with this internal thought process between the two characters in the brain.  I found the internal talk rather boring.  It was always centered around sex, and how to win this guy or that woman, and whether a woman enjoys sex more or a man. 
Heinlein presents a decadent world, where crime is rampant, and it is hard to remain safe unless you are locked in, or travel in an armored car with many guards.  Women run around naked, or with revealing clothing, and sex dominates much of peoples activities.  Open marriage and threesome and foursomes are the theme of the day.  There is also a colony on the moon, where humanity is hoping for a new start.
One of the first things the new young lady, Joan Eunice does, is impregnate herself with sperm stored from the original Johann Smith.  She then pursues her lawyer, and eventually marries him.  However when he dies of a stroke, we now find there are three voices in this brain, that of the husband, the host who donated the body, and the original brain.  It is too much to fathom.

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