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snipenekkid · 11-22-2010, 07:46 AM

For the life of me I cannot find a print edition of it but I swear that Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love" was, at one time, in print in a Volume 1 and Volume 2 because I owned them, or at least that is the way I remember it. My addled brain remembers reading Vol. 2 prior to Vol. 1 and that Vol 1 was by far my favorite of the two and had an ending that was just so painful yet a very wonderful observation about life and what a pointless thing this existence of ours may or may not be.

But all I can find reference to is a single title which would be about the right number of pages if the two volumes were combined. But given that I also have it in my memory that Vol. 2 was printed prior to Vol. 1, sort of an odd thing but if I am not misremembering, it could have just been the editions I owned were different eras is all.

Anyway, I don't know the order of the current volume. Meaning if what I remember as Volume 1 is in the book as the first part or the 2nd part, I feel it would be a travesty for that to be true as the reading order of Vol. 2 followed by Vol 1 was something I felt was perfect. Plus Vol. 2 did not have that emotionally complex ending.

No matter, as a whole, the stories, the meat of the whole Lazarus Long story line (Heinlein's Future History) do stretch limits of various subjects which are certainly not for those with strong moral beliefs and taboos. So, I recommend it, at least in part, as a book that evokes quite a strong and complex set of emotions.

Anyway, it's the best I can offer other than I know the audiobook version was at one time also out in two volumes and is not only a single volume, unless you find older versions on either Amazon or ebay. The reader was not easy for me to get used to, but now I am OK with it. I am collecting as many of Heinlein's books as audiobooks simply because I have read them all so many times I can use them as background distraction while working and not miss hours of a book when focused on work.

Hope to read some more more emotive titles offered as when you think about it, most SF does not offer enough of the human condition in the characters.

Supposedly Spider Robinson & his wife Jeannie wrote a couple trilogies together which could be of interest as well. However I have not read any of those titles yet.

11-22-2010, 07:46 AM	#4
snipenekkid Banned Posts: 760 Karma: 51034 Join Date: Feb 2009	For the life of me I cannot find a print edition of it but I swear that Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love" was, at one time, in print in a Volume 1 and Volume 2 because I owned them, or at least that is the way I remember it. My addled brain remembers reading Vol. 2 prior to Vol. 1 and that Vol 1 was by far my favorite of the two and had an ending that was just so painful yet a very wonderful observation about life and what a pointless thing this existence of ours may or may not be. But all I can find reference to is a single title which would be about the right number of pages if the two volumes were combined. But given that I also have it in my memory that Vol. 2 was printed prior to Vol. 1, sort of an odd thing but if I am not misremembering, it could have just been the editions I owned were different eras is all. Anyway, I don't know the order of the current volume. Meaning if what I remember as Volume 1 is in the book as the first part or the 2nd part, I feel it would be a travesty for that to be true as the reading order of Vol. 2 followed by Vol 1 was something I felt was perfect. Plus Vol. 2 did not have that emotionally complex ending. No matter, as a whole, the stories, the meat of the whole Lazarus Long story line (Heinlein's Future History) do stretch limits of various subjects which are certainly not for those with strong moral beliefs and taboos. So, I recommend it, at least in part, as a book that evokes quite a strong and complex set of emotions. Anyway, it's the best I can offer other than I know the audiobook version was at one time also out in two volumes and is not only a single volume, unless you find older versions on either Amazon or ebay. The reader was not easy for me to get used to, but now I am OK with it. I am collecting as many of Heinlein's books as audiobooks simply because I have read them all so many times I can use them as background distraction while working and not miss hours of a book when focused on work. Hope to read some more more emotive titles offered as when you think about it, most SF does not offer enough of the human condition in the characters. Supposedly Spider Robinson & his wife Jeannie wrote a couple trilogies together which could be of interest as well. However I have not read any of those titles yet.