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Title: Ugh!
Review: Boy, was this book a disappointment. 300 pages of characterization and situational development! Why did it take so long! It could have been done in half that many pages! And then the resolution was way too short! I would have loved to see what happened beyond Mr. Brin's ending. He should have taken those 150 pages he didn't need for setup and used them to expand the resolution. For pages and pages, I was like, "Ugh, enough with the dolphin-speak and the reiteration that there's something strange about the planet! Get on with the story!" It was so frustrating.Now I'm wary of picking up the next book in the series, The Uplift War. If it's as slow as this one, I'm not looking forward to it.
