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Title: Annoying as a terrier on Ritalin
Review: Had this one (and all the other Bujold novels) recommended to me, and I'm sorry to say that it's pretty much conditioned me never to read another Bujold. It was profoundly irritating on some level that I find hard to pinpoint. Was it the paper-thin -- and universally idiotic -- characters? the click-bang attempts at humor? the juvenile, harried, "breathless" prose? I suppose I'll never know, but it's not worth re-reading the book to find out. It reminded me of a small, hyperactive, and attention-deficient dog, constantly yapping at my heels, demanding to be acknowledged: "Look at me, I'm cute, I'm cute, I'm cuuuuute!" Ugh. Somebody put it out of its misery. Sorry if that sounds cynical ... This book would have been fine when I was 13 and reading a lot of Harry Harrison, but there are boatloads of better science fiction out there.
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