On my shelf and available until I figure out which to release into the wild first.

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Off to butlin in trade

This was great. I think it may be my favorite. I think I may try doing a wild release - maybe somewhere safe - like where I work.

Sending off to a fellow bookcrossing as a RABCK. Enjoy.

I didn't much care for Angels & Demons but everyone keeps telling me that I'd like Dan Brown so I'm giving him a second chance with a new topic - hopefully I'll like it better. Thank you so much for sending this book my way!

Well, I did like this book better than Angels & Demons, but that isn't saying much. Brown has a definite formula that he follows, making his books extremely formulaic and predictable. I knew who the controller was before the book was half over.

The writing is also of a poor quality. "He was muscular and lithe with eyes as desolate as the topography on which he was stationed." What kind of simile is that? The topography? Brown's frequent reliance on sentences such as "Geologist Charles Brophy had endured the saveage splendor of this terrain for years, and yet nothing could prepare him for a fate as barbarous and unnatural as the one about to befall him." Gee, nothing kills the suspense faster than knowing the guy's fate as he's being introduced!

The story has interesting potential, and the technologies presented are most intriguing although I am highly skeptical of Brown's claims that All technologies described in this novel exist. A massive government deception such as this would not be at all surprising, however.

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mailing to fulfill a wish on Books for Soldiers.