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   From: thetruemelissa@gmail.com   
      
   Verily, in article <10l5dta$kcs$1@panix2.panix.com>, did   
   kludge@panix.com deliver unto us this message:   
   >   
   > Scott Lurndal  wrote:   
   > >The True Melissa  writes:   
   > >>Verily, in article , did   
   > >>psperson@old.netcom.invalid deliver unto us this message:   
   > >>> Incidentally, in the eBook series where I catch up on previous read   
   > >>> authors, I found that /Farnham's Freehold/ is now available on Kindle.   
   > >>   
   > >>Farnham's Freehold is probably the weirdest Heinlein I ever read, though   
   > >>I haven't read them all. I recall being disappointed in the handling of   
   > >>Grace, the protagonist's wife.   
   > >   
   > >For someone who grew up in KC in the early 1900's, Grace would not   
   > >have been at all unusual, sadly.   
   >   
   > Yes, when I read Farnham's Freehold as a child, I thought it was a pretty   
   > good characterization of my mother and many of her friends.  Today it may   
   > not be believable but my mother would not be either.   
      
   At one point, the protagonist tells the chippie^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnew love   
   interest that Grace seems crummy now but was great when they were first   
   married. There's a line something like "Grace has always been   
   magnificent under adversity. It was prosperity she couldn't handle."   
      
   Based on that line, I was hoping and half-expecting that Grace would   
   step up tall and reveal hidden depths once adversity returned.   
   Instead... well, you've read it and know what happens.   
      
      
      
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