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Title: There is a story here somewhere, but...
Review: The writer, though apparently acomplished in his technical field, could use a writers workshop before embarking on a second work of fiction. I grew bored with the almost continuous stream of 'new' characters that just happened to have some sort of relationship with the character to keep the plot twisting along that where introduced and dismissed every 30 pages or so. It seems that few characters are ever allowed to take on more than one dimension in this story. I don't need to like the main character to enjoy a story, but I ask for more substance to his personality to make up for it. The main character comes across a shallow and never seems to really develop a motivation for his actions, beliefs and emotions.
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