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Review title: Great Idea; Poor Execution
Product review: What a great idea for a novel! I expected a story of conflict, creative problem-solving, and triumph of the human spirit. [I feel that] What I read was about as exciting as reading the minutes of a smalltown civic club or the owner's manual for my VCR. [In my opinion] The characters were numerous and so poorly-developed that I confused them throughout the book.Almost as annoying [in my opinion] were several glaring errors that could have been easily checked. For example, the words to the "Irish Prayer" were incorrect. Another was one that a ninth-grade science student should know - the author incorrectly stated that the chemical number of an element is determined by the number of electrons (rather than the number of protons). It seems that either the author or his editor would have caught these.I never stop reading a book once I begin. Many times a book starts out slow, but "hooks" me after a few chapters. This one never got better. Don't waste your time.
