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Title: Wink Wink Nod Nod We Are So Clever
Review: Don't get me wrong Spider Robinson is my favorite author but not even the warmth of Key West where this novel is set could warm me up to it.This is a valuable lesson. Sometimes we must give up our fictional friends. Jake and his friends seem tired and need to rest. They have entertained us but now I feel like a guest at a party that has overstayed his welcome. Everbody is going through the motions but I just don't feel it.One of the things I really didn't like is Jake and his crew's attitude of: "We are so clever Nod-Nod Wink-Wink." Everybody has some sort of power incuding his kid. It seems they are running into the same wall that Superman in the comics did. You make a character or a group of them so powerful you really have to strain to come up with a problem worthy of them.In short this book seemed a bit to much by the numbers.As much as I love the characters I hope this is the last I see of them. I will remember them fondly from prior books.
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