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Review title: Just Badly Written
Product review: The following sentence, which is fairly typical of the prose in this work, appears on the top of page 25 of the hardcover edition of this book:"Though it would be a pity if Ilen -- achingly beautiful, wanly pale, shamelessly blonde, effortlessly academically accomplished, bizarrely unself-assured and insecure Ilen -- had to perish in the wreck too, Fassin thought."If you can read sentences like this and not flinch, you may enjoy this work. I cannot, and after twenty or thirty such assaults, I gave up. Mr. Bank's writing is sophomoric and annoying. Hell, it doesn't all have to be Cormac McCarthy, but even science fiction geeks have to have some standards.
