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Title: More is Less
Review: `Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in Ice' Pellegrino says it will end in a plague of mites, no wait, bats, no, fungus, wait, wait, how about, nuclear war? No? A comet?Apocalyptic stories succeed and fail on 2 things. 1. An emotional connection to those in peril. Which Pellegrino FAILS to deliver.And 2. An interesting, frightening, overwhelming `antagonist'. To say that Pellegrino takes the opposite approach would be doing a disservice to the word `opposite'. The mites, fungus, bats all are just symptoms.... Of another symptom, of... well we never learn what causes it all. That's right, a end-of-the-world story that doesn't tell you why the world ended.And while were on the subject of the world ending, does it? What happens to Europe, Asia, Africa, the rest of America? Pellegrino doesn't know, and neither will you. So its got that going for it too.
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