August 15th 2008 06:02 am
Job: A Comedy of Justice
Take one sanctimonious evangelical preacher, one typical Heinlein female (very smart, very beautiful, willing to defer to her man’s wishes) a bunch of world-hopping and a bushel of Heinlein’s trademark preaching (in this case, mostly about religion and social mores), and you get Job: A Comedy of Justice. That makes it sound like I hate the book, doesn’t it? I don’t. But after 40 years of reading his in-your-face morality, I do think it’s terribly over-the-top.
But that’s Heinlein for you. We of the gentler sex need to be protected and cared for.
Um, yeah. I don’t buy it either.
Still, the whole concept of the story seriously amuses me, which is why I to bother to read it every few years. Yahweh and Lucifer are brothers, and playing this little game… except Yahweh sets all the rules and cheats on top of it. Poor Alex gets stuck in the middle.
So if you can get past Heinlein’s 1950s “progressive” morality, it’s quite a good story.
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2 Responses to “Job: A Comedy of Justice”
Descartes on 17 Aug 2008 at 10:07 pm #
Isn’t that the one that ended with an orgy at the Church of The One Orgasm? I always wanted to find that place, sounds like my kind of church. Well, maybe not.
I do remember really liking this book-maybe I need to re-read it as well.
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Kelly on 18 Aug 2008 at 5:30 am #
Church of the Divine Orgasm… but yeah. That’s the story.