a little place to call my own (art and fashion blog)

  Today I shall review The Moon is a Harsh Mistress , a novel by Robert A.Heinlein. I've read it many moons ago, but it stayed with me. As someone who studied literature, I've read a lot about revolutions. What I've read often terrified me. I've become vary of revolutions, my attitude to them becoming even cynical. What education taught me with its history lessons, my life seemed to confirm. Nevertheless, as  cynical as I have become about revolutions, this novel managed to warm my heart.  “Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.” This story about Loonies (residents of Luna i.e. the Moon) rebelling against Earth government is so well written it is really a crime to miss it. As a big a crime as not starting a revolution when revolution is due. If you want to feed your inner rebel with a delicious story of lunar colony rebelling against mother Ear