(These 3 images are not exactly the images on my books — I bought mine all when they were published way back when…)

I had read the 1st four books in this series as they came out back in the 80’s and 90’s, and then stopped reading, deciding I’d wait until King completed the work and read them all together.

With my travel schedule the past few weeks (NYC, Chicago, SFO), I’ve had time to read the 1st 3 books in the series and have started the fourth…

Not many quotes from the 1st three — these are just “fun reads,” but there is this one:

“The prosaic fact of the universe’s existence single-handely defeats the pragmatist and the cynic…”

All in all, good reads, lots of action and excitement, etc.

It felt good to read fiction again. It has been too long. 🙂 And it felt good to read Heinlein again. I went through a stage where I read a ton of his stuff, but his is one (I think) I missed.

This story has been mentioned as a classic for libetarian politics. Not much to say beyond that, and only a couple of quotes:

• I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free becuase I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
• Where do you start explaining when a man’s words show there isn’t anything he understands about a subject, instead is loaded with preconceptions that don’t fit facts and doesn’teven know he has?

For the 1st quote, I have been comparing that to “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose” (Janis Joplin)