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Title: No real hero, no real villain, and no solid plot.
Review: Although the author is trying to make us believe it, in this book there is no real hero, no real villain, and no solid plot. Story goes mostly linear, but with sudden unnecessary jerks forward and backward in time, sometimes revealing the plot, most of the time only confusing the issue.Struggle of one man with the scientific bureaucracy of his time slowly but surely becomes obsolete, even irrelevant, and in the end there is no "catharsis" either, and story finally deflates without the satisfying "boom" or the "aha" effect. One feels as if the puzzle is being put together, and when the work is done, one does not care for the picture that ends in front of him.
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