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This review originally published in Looking For a Good Book. Rated 2.0 of 5
I first read this book back in 1977 when an English teacher of mine, knowing that I enjoyed sci-fi, put a copy of this book on my desk and suggested that if I really liked science fiction then I would love this book. It was an award winner, after all. A month or two later and I brought the book back and I could see in his face he wanted to know how much I loved it, and I smiled and said it was good, but the truth was, I d ...more
I first read this book back in 1977 when an English teacher of mine, knowing that I enjoyed sci-fi, put a copy of this book on my desk and suggested that if I really liked science fiction then I would love this book. It was an award winner, after all. A month or two later and I brought the book back and I could see in his face he wanted to know how much I loved it, and I smiled and said it was good, but the truth was, I d ...more
I'm not sure why I didn't really like this. It had an interesting premise (Fall, rise, fall of human civilization) but it failed to grip me. It was somewhat difficult to read and relied too heavily on religious doctrine.
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Each of the sections of this story were well done but none of them really felt like a complete story and even together it felt a bit unfinished. Still a very interesting idea well told.
Jan 24, 2008
Jeffrey
rated it
did not like it
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Sep 05, 2010
Jday
marked it as books-i-couldn-t-finish
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