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Title: Like Soup Diluted with Water
Review: The subject is very ambitious and intriguing; Los Alamos in WW2. But unfortunately, this book is extremely poor as a novel. It is lengthy and tedious, and I felt like drinking soup diluted several times with water. It contains several interesting matters such as a guilty conscience of the scientists for creating the dreadful weapon, but they are described only superficially and not appealing at all.And the characters are all dull and flat, especially Connolly, the protagonist. It might be a little better if he were a mechanical narrator who just reported the life in Los Alamos to readers. But he artificially displays his "personality" with an abrupt adultery. That makes the story increasingly diffuse and boring.I won't accuse this book as a complete waste of time, because it let me have a glimpse of the inside of Los Alamos in WW2. But I feel terribly frustrated why such an intriguing subject could not become a better novel.
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