Time Enough for Love
Sure, there's time enough for love...but who has time enough to  get through 281/2 hours of a novel as dull as this? It opens 22  centuries in the future, when the ruler of a remote colony  planet tries to keep 2000-year-old Lazarus Long from committing  suicide before he passes on what he has learned. What follows is  a very talky book, comprised mostly of Long's reminiscences.  Curious about his possible blood ties to almost everyone he  encounters, Long talks at length about genetics, but what he  says now seems absurdly out-of-date, thanks to recent  developments in DNA fingerprinting. When this book first  appeared in 1973, it was hailed as one of Heinlein's  masterworks the capstone to his future history cycle. Now it  creaks with age, leaving listeners to marvel at how quickly the  future can grow stale. Lloyd James's reading injects some life  into the story but not enough to make it a worthwhile  acquisition to any but well-funded sf collections. R. Kent  Rasmussen, Thousand Oaks, CACopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.