The year 2017 was terrible for pretty much everyone from politicians to celebrities to sports figures. But you know what can help numb the pain? LITERATURE! It's time to announce the winners of the 2017 Troxellian Literature Awards! These are the mandatory end-of-year awards where I rate all the books I read over the past year and give them fake awards based on the whims of a madman (That’s me). My reading list is usually limited to books I’m reading to assist with whatever n

I just finished reading Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. It's one of the early science fiction works that's often credited with heralding in the science fiction genre as serious literature. In the novel, a Martian is brought to Earth to learn the ways of Man and ends up founding his own religion until he's murdered as a martyr (oops...spoiler alert). The novel isn't as widely read nowadays, but in the 60's it flourished since it tackled commune living, free love,