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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\nBy Robert Heinlein<\/em><\/p>\n Glory Road<\/em> was a fun little book by Heinlein.\u00c2\u00a0 The entire book was written in his favorite first-person-narrator-who’s-sarcastic-as-hell style and spans about 200 pages or so.\u00c2\u00a0 It follows the tale of a young Korean War vet (you can glean this easily from the story) who’s soon whisked away to another universe\/dimension by a woman he meets on a nude beach in France.\u00c2\u00a0 Ah, classic Heinlein.<\/p>\n The woman, accompanied by a squire of some sort, seems determined to name our narrator her “champion” to do various acts of bravery and assist her in certain quests.\u00c2\u00a0 And for the first half or so of the book, that’s about it.<\/p>\n But… the last third or so is completely different, and features the narrator and his Lady settling down — the book loses its lighthearted touch by this point and becomes very serious and downright depressing, as you’ll see.\u00c2\u00a0 But there, I’ve told enough. :P<\/p>\n I love reading Heinlein’s novels simply for the writing style, though — his books are some of the first ones I try to recommend to non-SF readers.<\/p>\n By Philip Jose Farmer<\/em><\/p>\n This book still befuddles me now, even after a month or two of reading it.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t tell if it was a translation or not (I don’t think<\/em> Philip Jose Farmer is foreign, though I’m not sure — Spanish, maybe?), but it sure reads like one.<\/p>\n The sentence structure is strange, the character development is weird, the story seems to jump around here and there — I really don’t know what to make of it.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyone know?<\/p>\nDark is the Sun<\/h2>\n