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Title: unimaginative post-apocalyptic smoking advertisement
Review: This would have been a decent book if the reading level hadn't have been for 4th graders or if the color scheme used by Zelazny was suitable for 5 year old's. Even the general plot is fairly juvenile, obviously targeted towards teen-aged males. And what better way to sell cigarettes to teenagers than to advertise smoking in a sci-fi novel targeted towards teenaged boys? This book must have been paid for by the tobacco industry, as there is a sheer ridiculous amount of chain smoking involved (nearly on every page).Zelazny didn't put much thought into the post-apocalyptic plot, besides the lame midwestern monsters. There seems to be ample cigarettes in an America in economic collapse, as is there plenty of coffee and other items difficult to obtain (eggs, meat, etc). In my opinion, this book was just one big tobacco advertisement with little or no imagination.
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