欧宝娱乐

A librarian friend of mine suggested this as my introduction to Heinlein and I was not disappointed. Apart from the delicious technical details of making a spacesuit work; faster than light travels to Pluto, to the Magellanic Cloud, and beyond; the horrors of being held hostage by an alien race that views other sentient beings as animals; another alien race with indefinable, changeable physical form and the ability to convey the kind of warmth, peace and comfort of being mothered feels like; this book offers more mundane stuffs like how to win a slogan-writing contest held by a soap manufacturer, what to do when the bully of the town heckles you in front of your peers, and such insight like the fact that you are never truly lucky. Luck calls for preparation. You cannot do nothing and expect to be lucky. And it really helps that the characters are clever and witty and engage throughout the book in razor-sharp banterings and heartbreaking moments of courage, endurance, and dignity.

One thing though, I completely rue the fact that I cannot read musical notation. The alien creature called Mother Thing speaks in songs in this book, and I was completely at a loss as to how each bits of song sounds like.