# Four chapters into _Soldier of Sidon_ [NO spoilers] *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 02 Nov 2006* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan Rabin *02 Nov 2006, 23:33* I got my copy of _Soldier of Sidon_ yesterday at Borders in Palo Alto, California. I'm only four chapters in so far, but everything so far is encouraging. It's written in Wolfe's smoothest style: so far, I haven't had to re-scan any paragraphs unless I enjoyed them. If you liked the down-to-earth, realistic portrayal of the Athenians and other Hellenes in the first two _Soldier_ books, you'll probably like the Phoenicians and Egyptians in this one. Happy reading! -- Dan Rabin ---