Stranger in a Strange Land

I enjoyed this book, but I'm not sure if I actually liked it. I liked the basic premise: a human, Valentine Michael Smith, born and raised on Mars by Martians comes back to Earth and becomes a new Messiah. The writing was good; it kept my interest and kept me reading. My biggest problem with the book was that it felt like two very different books mashed together. The first "book" is a chase, trying to free and hide the human Martian. The second half is an in-your-face polyamorous hippie commune-based messiah story. At times, I found the long dialogues arguing and supporting the polyamorous society to be not much more than well-written propaganda. And there's quite a style difference between the two halves...