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Great entertainment. This book was my friend throughout a 48 hour power outage right before Christmas one year. I was sad when I had finished reading it. Easy reading, light. A good vacation novel.

This book was great fun. Not quite as scary as I'd hoped (probably because I found the plot somewhat predictable), but it had enough twists to keep me wanting to read it. There are several likable characters, and a couple of truly hateful ones. This setup usually makes for some exciting scenes, and there are quite a few of them in this book. There was also a bit of confusion (at least for me, but I can be dense at times) especially in the beginning when trying to keep the various dead entities straight in my mind. I eventually figured it all out, though, so no problem. My main criticism of the story is just something I found puzzling: there's a dog that figures hugely in at least the first half of the story, but virtually disappears from the second half, and I can't really figure out why. It's probably supposed to be a metaphor for the young boy in the story finding courage and his own way in life, but the way it was handled seemed odd to me. All in all, I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a ghost story. It's not a horrific story, though, so if you're looking for one that scares you so much you can't sleep, this isn't it. It is pretty graphic and gory on spots, so if you like that kind of thing, check this one out.

Boorriinngg. I don't know what happened to this book. I was riveted to Ben Bova's MARS when I first read it, and was so sad when it ended, and then so happy with the sequel, and then I couldn't believe it when I saw this book on the shelf at the library. Gah! It's dull, dull, dull. I've caught wind of Ben Bova's nervousness about the coming New Morality, and I've encountered it in some of his other books (SATURN, maybe) but I didn't realize it's his thing now. It's a preposterous, overly complicated projection and it already feels dated. Of COURSE the greenhouse effect stuff is coming out of the global warming news and the Al Gore stuff. Of COURSE a religious fundamentalist government is in direct response to George W. Bush's presidency, but the dude was only ever going to be in office for eight years. Did people really, seriously believe that religious fundamentalists were going to take over? Come on, people. It's fun to wring hands, but to base the premise of a book about Mars on it? Plus that business with the rapist/professor stuff was dumb and unnecessary (can't people just be jerks anymore), and the anxiety about funding archaeology on Mars when Florida's going underwater and the world is dealing with displaced refugees seems misplaced. It's not like there's a time crunch for digging up fossils on a world with no weather, and it's not like you need religion to give people reasons to spend money on Earth if the seas are really rising that fast. And I love Mars as much as anyone. But this book is contrived, silly, too agenda-driven (and such a dated agenda), and--as stated above--BORING. I am so sad about this story. So sad. I had such high hopes and all of them are dashed. Dashed, I say. Dashed.