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Armageddon by Leon Uris

4.0

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A good, sweeping tale. Intelligently written, as well, but it delves quite often into poor black/white (usually ethnically-based) moral stereotypes. It's a shame, too, as the real-life actors in the actual history have a stark enough moral contrast that it isn't necessary for the author to compound it with his own biases; the 'bad guys' were beyond bad, and the 'good guys' were good. It's not a story that requires embellishment on that score. Still, there's more than enough of value here that allows me to forgive that.