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Viscous Circle (Cluster, Bk. 5)

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The best part of this book (I read it a very long time ago) is that after I looked up from reading I looked at everything around me differently. I had just read a chapter from an alien's point of view and I had trouble reconciling the world I was reading about and what was real. A very odd feeling. If you liked early Xanth books and the books Piers Anthony wrote before them you will love this book.

Yet another male-female alien pairing of agent and other. Or, in other words, this book isn't very good at all compared to the others. Throw in some philosophy of the whole thing, sword fighting, an Ancient site, and not a lot of point to this one. For example:"Rondl floated before a class of twenty young Bands. All were attentive to his beam as it flashed across the enclosure and reflected from the curving wall. Could he get his message across? "This is the story of the ugly Solarian and the three innocent species," he said. He had the nagging feeling he had adapted the story from some other narration, but he could not think what that might be. There was nothing similar he knew of in Band lore. "The Solarian is a gross physical creature with bone-filled extremities, flesh-filled torso, and liquid-filled eyeballs sliding within moist socketsââ,¬â"