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Title: Endless Plotting
Review: I'm a big fan of Shogun (4 1/2 stars) and Tai-Pan (4 stars) and expected much of the same here. But after 450 pages I gave up. Plot, subplot, sub-subplot, sub-sub-subplot, scores of characters. I got tired of starting another chapter with a new plot angle, when I was ready for development and resolution of what came before.This book picks up with the Straun/Brock rivalry from Tai-Pan after an interval of 120 years. I wanted that history filled-in (including the remaining three coins), but there was little of that in what I read.The writing is still good and I may have been impatient to quit after only a third of the book, but I had to move on to something more satisfying.
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