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Citizen of the Galaxy is a throw back to the days when a complete story could be told in 250 pages or less. A nice 3 Star diversion to a simpler time in SciFi, when "atomics" were all the rage and everyone had them, strictly for defense you know. Heinlein tells a tale of a young lad, sold as a slave to an old beggar--who is not what he seems. The boy grows and has adventures as he goes on a mission for the old beggar that will journey through several different cultures. Heinlein paints 3 differe
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Mar 12, 2019
Tani
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My first DNF of 2019! I'm still struggling with the concept of choosing not to finish a book, but this seems like a perfect candidate. I've had this book for more than 10 years, and clearly I wasn't interested enough to pick it up in that time, which is a good clue as to how much I expect to enjoy it. In the interests of getting it off my shelves, I brought it to work to read during my lunch breaks. It's short, so it seemed like a good candidate. I got about halfway through it, and I found mysel
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Great early Heinlein, easily among his best for young sf fans. The type of book that you don't find nowadays.
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Aug 30, 2007
Jamie Collins
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