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The book has its merits, however, tends to weigh on the political vs religiousness quite a bit. Lots of history about the Irish, and how they have been wronged and the steps they need to take to achieve forgiveness as a peoples. If you can muddle through all of that, there is definitely lots of good content, I personally waffled between boredom and interested the last half of the book, nut since I had already dedicated enough time to read the first half, I felt obligated to finish, hoping that t
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The writing is really eloquent and interesting. Much higher quality than typical "post apocalyptic" novels.
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I actually quite enjoyed this semi-appocalyptic novel of a world where women are an endangred species. I did, however, find the ending to be a little weak. If you like bio-warfare and an examination of what could happen in a society where a plague targetted at half the population, then you will enjoy this book. You'll also find some rather interesting insight into the Ireland of the 80s. The characters are believable for the most part, and you might be surprised to find yourself rooting for the
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This was my first non-Dune Frank Herbert novel, and it was really good!
A new take on an old apocalypse story, and turned the "villain" concept on it's head, which I found very refreshing. ...more
A new take on an old apocalypse story, and turned the "villain" concept on it's head, which I found very refreshing. ...more
Feb 17, 2009
Kelly Sandberg
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Sep 30, 2009
Matt
marked it as to-read-sf-fantasy
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