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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