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Review title: Well researched and--well, boring
Product review: The subject of this book has always fascinated me. I've thoroughly enjoyed Tom Robbin's "Still Life with Woodpecker, Eco's "Foucaults Pendulum", Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon", Robert Anton Wilson's books, and even "Gravity's Rainbow" which all deal at various levels with hidden global conspiracies that are "really" behind history as we know it, and so it was with great anticipation that I picked up "The Eight". I loved the epic scale of the story, I loved all the historical references, puzzles, mind benders, chess quotes, etc. However, the prose all seems to have one pace, lacks real tension and release, and plods along dutifully to resolution. This book should have excited me but I found myself picking up one of several books I was reading at the time instead of racing to complete "The Eight".
