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Book review: Very Hard Choices
Aug. 21st, 2008 08:33 pmToday's book review is Very Hard Choices by Spider Robinson.
This is a direct sequel to Very Bad Deaths, but it's a separate story and the characters are explained, so it should stand on its own.
This book has characters that succeed, at least to some degree, in engaging my interest, and a political message that I agree with. But the tolerable adventure story plot through the first two thirds or so of the book gets turned on its head in a way that's not really fair to the reader, and the rest of the book goes in a tinfoil hat direction. Page by page, it's not bad, but as a whole, it's very weak; I expect better of Robinson.
5 out of 10.
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This is a direct sequel to Very Bad Deaths, but it's a separate story and the characters are explained, so it should stand on its own.
This book has characters that succeed, at least to some degree, in engaging my interest, and a political message that I agree with. But the tolerable adventure story plot through the first two thirds or so of the book gets turned on its head in a way that's not really fair to the reader, and the rest of the book goes in a tinfoil hat direction. Page by page, it's not bad, but as a whole, it's very weak; I expect better of Robinson.
5 out of 10.
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