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The Intuitionist – pg135-end
April 6th, 2009 | 
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Having now finished this book and discussed it with my book group, I still have mixed feelings about it.
I feel I should be merciful since it’s a first novel, but maybe his next one should have been published as his “first.” The main character is a rather thin shell for Whitehead to show us his world and to manifest his examples of how he sees society. To be fair she develops a bit of character by the end of the book. But it’s still not much.
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Red Mars – pg1-280
This book reminds me that classic sci-fi often forgot the science. Then the reaction of hard SF got the science right but forgot the fiction part of it all.
The Intuitionist – pg1-135
At this point I’m still trying to get a feel for this book.
After some clear grammar errors and a bit of political soap boxing it seems to be composing itself in the standard detective/conspiracy model of Chinatown and the like.