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Breaking Point (Tom Clancy's Net Force, No. 4) by Tom Clancy
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Audio CD
(Unabridged)
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Forgettable Potboiler, September 30, 2001
Reviewer:
Bruce Dunn
from Vancouver Canada
Occasional bits of good writing in describing the thinking processes of some of the characters, but otherwise bland. A friend who read it broke out howling with laughter at a scene in which various characters shoot it out in pitch blackness in the middle of a June night. I asked him what was so funny. He pointed out that the scene takes place in Alaska, where in the middle of the summer it is so far north that it never gets darker than twilight, particularly a week or so from the longest day of the year. A little research by the author(s) about one of the most important settings for the novel would have helped. When I read it, I broke out howling at a description of a sports event involving throwing a boomerang to try to get the longest flight time. The book quotes flight times of up to 18 minutes. The book revolves around characters who are supposedly power users of the internet, who can rapidly access the most obscure facts. Too bad the author(s) aren't up to doing basic research on the internet themselves.
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