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Title: It was written by a journalist...
Review: And you can tell. This book reads like a 100+ page newspaper article. And while newspaper style is very nice for short, half page articles, it is not good for a book.I have to admit, I may be a bit biased. I tend to carry a bit of a grudge against largely overrated popular books. But the fact is, reading this book was torture. Every few pages, Junger seemed to go off on tangents longer than the actual story. He goes into absurdly unnecessary discussions of the technology involved, and even I, a geek and technophile, was bored to tears.So, basically, an interesting historical story completely ruined by awful narrative, excessive detail, and an incapability to stick to the point.Give this one a miss.
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