Why did Mr. Haldeman write this book? The only reason I can figure is that his last sorry book, "Forever Peace" won some awards so he thought he could make some money by revisiting his best work. Well I wish he could give me my money back. Forever Free is AWFUL. This is what we waited for? The ending of Forever War was so perfect, leaving the lives of the two characters up to the readers imagination. I think anyones imagination could have devised a better ending than the one written here by Haldeman. A 25 year wait just so that Mr. Haldeman can completely destroy this story line with what? Just a bad episode of "The twilight Zone." This story is just plain bad, no action, no suspense, none of the caring for the characters that I felt in the first book. I fought off the urge to just throw it away half way through the book, hoping for a payoff in the end...it didn't come. Cant steer folks away from this piece of garbage enough.