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terrypaulpearce 's review for:
Pandora's Star
by Peter F. Hamilton
Sorry, I just can't do it. I felt like I should read something by Hamilton, but after 500 pages and then finding out that nothing gets resolved by the end of book one, so it's effectively a 2-part 2000 page novel... I'm done. I'm sure the sci-fi ideas are great, and I want to find out what's in Pandora's star, but I really have never read a book that needs a good edit like this one. I really don't mind long old books that ramble, if the prose quality or characterisation is interesting in itself -- I'm also reading Lonesome Dove right now, and loving it -- but everything here is just so workmanlike, and ponderous, so I resent the diversions. And every time the novel turns to sex or the suggestion of sex, it gets pretty cringeworthy.