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Title: "Pastwatch" or is it "Pastwash"
Review: Pastwatch is a future organization that has the technology to view the past. What did Pastwatch see when they viewed the lives of Jesus and Muhammed? This book, whose entire premise seems to be religon and redemption fails to tell us. In Orson Cards future world, Christianiy is still around so when the Pastwatch organization viewed Jesus'life they must of seen he was God. Islam is still around, so when Muhammeds' life was viewed they must of seen that "Allah was god, and that Muhammed was his Prophet." I could not suspend my disbelief after 200 pages, the situation and the technology seemed forced, squeezed to fit into an implausible plot. The Columbus parts of the story are tedious, and dreadful, you hate when they appear, as they are filled with cardboard charicatures. The cover was interesting but buying a book under that pretext well ...you know.
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