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I have a lot of trouble following the plots of science fiction books and found this one no different. However I enjoyed it immensely. The satirical humor was so clever particularly the jibes made against politicians and politics. I was amused by what I suppose was a reference to global warming in a comment concerning New York winters becoming less severe, with virtually no snow. This was obviously written before last winter when the opposite seemed to be true.
I'm also not a fan of time travel, ...more
I'm also not a fan of time travel, ...more
May 15, 2014
Jessica
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it was ok
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I really want to give this a better review than 2 stars because I know the only reason I didn't like it was that it's not to my taste. Some of descriptions of New York (both the city and the Hudson Valley) in the throes of a deep winter are lovely, but 750 pages worth of the same lush description without much of a plot to move it forward makes the book feel like an MFA project on steroids. I'll freely admit that I'm much more of a plot-and-characters type, so this just never quite took hold for
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Jul 02, 2007
Rebecca Manery
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it was amazing
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