fancybone's review against another edition
2.0
A heartwarming story about a Nazi who learns that brown-skinned people are worthy of respect after teaching everyone about gunpowder and having women throw themselves at him willy nilly.
Seriously, for half of the book the protagonist's biggest problem is that the woman he's having sex with isn't one of the two other women he really wants to have sex with. It also features a fairly standard future-man-teaches-savages-about-gunpowder subplot, as well as an unsubtle critique of racism. It's a pretty fun and quick read, so if the blurb sounds like something you'd enjoy reading, you probably will - but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone without all the caveats above.
Seriously, for half of the book the protagonist's biggest problem is that the woman he's having sex with isn't one of the two other women he really wants to have sex with. It also features a fairly standard future-man-teaches-savages-about-gunpowder subplot, as well as an unsubtle critique of racism. It's a pretty fun and quick read, so if the blurb sounds like something you'd enjoy reading, you probably will - but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone without all the caveats above.
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