Assignment In Eternity and Bunk reviews

Previously, I've enjoyed Robert A Heinlein more than I'd expected, but that didn't work out with Assignment In Eternity.  The opening of the first story was really cool - exciting, intriguing, a classic spy story, which looked like it would unfold into an action-packed thriller.  Then the protagonist holed up at the headquarters of a secret society and spent many, many pages discussing science, philosophy and linguistics at a level that totally fried my brain.  The last section was a tagged-on mission denouement, which was just depressing.  Shame, really, because the start had such promise.


This afternoon, I made my merry way to a pub in Islington to watch an hour-long play, which starred two people who work in the office telephone centre.  It had been billed to me as a newly-written, rather strange amateur production, which didn't instil me with much confidence.  Luckily, my expectations were dashed - the play was excellent.  It was about a random selection of people who come across one another in a travellers' hostel - nothing much actually happened, but it was extremely well written, very funny in places, and the cast were all very good.  It was great to see my co-workers in their natural milieu (they would definitely class themselves as actors, rather than call centre workers) and I was very pleased to learn that they both have a lot of talent.  I had the opportunity to tell them both afterwards how much I'd enjoyed the play, which made the experience all the better.