Meh. Kinda. But kinda not.
It reads like a lengthy diary......or a really short auto-biography.
Like I said, there's pretty much no action and I couldn't really give a **** about the characters. It was like "So, Carmen's a captain now. Oh and Carl's dead. But anyway, last Saturday in Vancouver......"
I suppose the point was to give a sense of soldier-like emotional detatchment, but.....
And the pace was very uneven, and the bridging between stages in Rico's life was kinda thin. Heinlen also ignores every opportunity to discuss what even the most interesting piece of technology looks like, using phrases like "I'm sure you've seen the suits on the vids, so I won't waste your time by describing them..."
I'd recommend reading it, but I wouldn't call it a classic.
