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Title: Grandmaster produces rotten step-child
Review: Stranger in a Strange Land was one of the best books I have ever read, so I was eager to try another Heinlein book. To compare that novel with The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, would be like comparing the movie Taxi Driver to a bad made for tv special. I was offended at the dialog. I don't have anything against an author's predisposition with giving all the women spankings, or talking about their "crinkled areolas", but the delivery of all the protagonist's dialog was trite and unnatural. The first half of the book moves along nicely. Lot's of adventure and near scrapes from antagonists abound. Then confusion sets in. The numerous aliases used by several characters, combined with a derailed plot, totally jumps the shark midway through. I was dismayed when finishing the book, and checked the reviews on Amazon to see if there wasn't something wrong with me. Apparently, I am not the only one disappointed.
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