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Title: Interesting ideas but diluted in poor fiction
Review: The critique of society contained in Eclipse of the Sun is not new. Huxley and Orwell have already blazed the trail and unfortunately Michael D. O'Brien does not explore new territories.In fact, he does not even go as far as these authors. But the major flaw of the book is its style. It is poor because Micheal D. O'Brien has pre-conceived ideas and uses words only to convey these ideas in the form of a novel. An essay would have been more appropriate and might have allowed him to face his own intimate dilemma more squarely: "am I or am I not some kind of pathetic reactionary ?" Eclipse of the Sun does not answer this important question.
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