Title: It's a 100 page novella...
Product review: ...buried in 500 pages of tiresome drivel.Fortunately it's easy to skim through or even skip 30 or 40 pages at a time without missing anything "important." I gather the author is a college teacher and he's larded the book with endless, mundane details about life in academia. Some authors, like John D. MacDonald or Raymond Chandler, brought their stories to life with accurate descriptions of places or times; Benford, unfortunately, decided to unload his accumulated store of meaningless trivia into this novel and he is not a good enough writer to make it at all interesting.
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