The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Sweet! I ordered this from Amazon and it came in today. I think this is one of the only Heinlein books I haven't read - as a self-declared Kindle snob, I'm still irked it isn't available for that so I'm having to rely on the dead tree version.

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