Friday

De: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrado por: Hillary Huber

Friday, a secret courier, is thrown into an assignment under the command of her employer, a man she knows only as "Boss". She operates from and over a near-future Earth in North America, a vulgar and chaotic land comprised of dozens of independent states. In America's disunion, Friday keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions as she conquers one calamity and scrape after another.

Please note: This audiobook includes adult content and themes.

©1982 by Robert A. Heinlein (P)1996 by Blackstone Audiobooks

One of Heinlein’s BEST!

For over 50 years, I have loved Heinlein. Space Cadet……..
This Audible Book is my favourite, due to the Unbelievably Superlative Presentation by Hillary Huber. One of the best in narrative!!!!!!!!!!

Good story, so-so narration

I understand that this is the second narrator, and much better than the first. But... I'm sorry, Friday does not sound like she's from New Jersey, at least she doesn't in my head. Hillary should have also gotten some Pacific Northwest English language lessons - Sequim is pronounced squim, not See-quim, for instance. But it is still a good story, for all that it's from Heinlein's hedonism period.

WHERE DO THEY GET THE ART?

It's an old story, With old notions of gender roles being broken , but still somehow charmingly wrongheaded and backwards. I won't debate the merit of the story , it's allegory about racism, sexism, politics or anything else (all solved, but a new lower class of "artificial people" pops up somehow to replace brown people as the devil). But I will voice one thing. The character is described as "permanently tanned" or darker a few times in the book, But the cover art is a brunette white woman. One with knockers twice her head size. Although Friday is described as having large breasts, I don't think those cover art fantasies could be carried around anywhere but the moon.

Friday!

This has been one of my favorite books for decades, and I was pleased to listen to it on audible.com. Excellently read, and just as much fun as I remembered. Thank you.

Classic Heinlein

I have always enjoyed his writing, and this is an entertaining read, but it was written in another time. There are parts of the story that wouldn’t pass muster these days, but I would love to see a well done movie based on this one.

Excellent Story

The story and its reading were very well done. This is one of the authors best.

Almost A Perfect, This Time.

I love the story of Friday, a super sexy courier in a future world that is both very close to where we are now and also very different. The "tech level" in this book doesn't distract the modern user like some of RAH's older books (it was published in the '80s). This is very much one of my favorite Heinlein books and I'd love to see it done into a movie.

That being said, this audio presentation misses the five star mark. While having a female narrator makes this audio vastly superior than the one that went before (what were they thinking!?), the characterizations were a little flat and so were the emotions. The narration was such that, if I wasn't careful, I'd slip away from being engrossed in the story, and pay attention to the voice.

Overall, it's a good audiobook and a great story set in a world you could come to believe is right around the corner from the world we are in now,

sometimes audiobooks can enhance the story.

This is a retrospective by Friday, "My mother was a test tube, my father was a knife", an artificial person, genetically spliced together in a lab with enhanced human abilities. Throughout the story she deals with societal mores, religion, prejudice, and governmental polices in a somewhat dystopian future earth. This is one of my favorite fiction books along with "Stranger in a Strange Land", Job: A Comedy of Justice and right behind Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Having read Friday when it first published and then again in my recent past, I wanted to try it as an audiobook. I was not disappointed. One's mind can imagine the author's words well enough, yet a good narration can add feelings and emotions that can be glossed over whole reading. Hillary Huber did a wonderful job of narrating this almost apocryphal story about humanity,

Such a really great book

This is such a really great book. Highline at his best. Worth the money. Worth the time. Enjoy yourself :-)

not the best Heinlein story

I had trouble getting through this one. I persisted but it really wasn't worth it.