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Title: About trees and forests
Review: Again a deception of a kind that I had several times now: authors who do not make the difference between a book meant for reading and a textbook. I managed 40 pages before definitely abandoning it. At least 25 caracters had by then been introduced by the authors giving a cv or at least a resumé of each and every one of them, thus killing the storyline. As long as it concerns keyfigures it is of course allright. But if applied to every caracter, even the most furtive ones, it is inadmissable. If an Indonesian officer meets an OSS-agent, the reader is interersted in the object and result of the meeting, not in the man's place of birth; the school he visted and the various positions he held before becoming what he was at the time of the meeting. This information should be footnoted, not used as disruptive 'filler' in the story. By describing every tree, the reader looses sight of the wood, he was interested in.
