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3 reviews for:

Kinsman

Ben Bova

3.38 AVERAGE

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cleanurself's review

2.5
reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Read this as title "Millenium"

This book is considered a great SciFi classic, but I found it tedious and boring. There was more character development and inner turmoil than in the usual scifi, but in the end I didn't care. I had no interest in the characters by the end of the book, which I feel is a failure of the author. The technology was also very dated and tended to trip me up a bit. This was written at the very beginning of the Space Shuttle program and would have been very interesting at that point, but now it just seems hackneyed and off-putting. There are sequels to this book, but I have no intention of reading them. I would not recommend this book.