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Title: Boring
Review: There are very few books that I can say were not really worth my time. Sadly, this is one. The plotting is terrible, the characters are wooden, and the anti-war message quickly starts to seem relentless and wearying. The future society it proposes is so absurd that I am amazed that anyone ever thought that the book contained greatness. If I had to guess, I would say that the approval people show towards the book is really just an outgrowth of the era which produced it: the Vietnam war. It said what people at that time wanted said, and thrilled them because of that. Now it just reads like a relic of an era whose premises and hopes have clearly failed. It amazes me that people like John Scalzi, who can write a wonderfully enjoyable book, liked it. His Old Man's War is in some ways very similar. There is only one difference: it is so much better.
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