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Review title: Up against the wall
Product review: I confess to writing this review without having read the entire book. I could not do so. The wooden writing style, ham-handed plot, and cardboard characters were simply unbearable. After getting less than a quarter of the way into the book I hurled it against a wall and swore a mighty oath to never again read anything written by Baxter. Don't misunderstand: I do like hard SF, and some deficiencies of writing can be forgiven when there's a good story. But Raft was just too amateurish for me to get through.
