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Summary: Suspensful Read
Review: This book reminds me in many ways of a Book titled "The Father Land". Both concern conspiracies of huge proportions that would be unbelievable if not for their authors' creativity and knowledge of the subjects involved. The story is original and inventive and the characters are well rounded. This is a book you will stay up too late every night to finish. Have a good read.
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Summary: Better as a Guide to San Francisco than a thriller
Review: You know, I spent a lot of time Waiting, too...waiting for the plot to get interesting, waiting for the science to make sense, waiting to warm up to the characters...Sorry, but Mr. Robinson's WAITING just kept me holding too long. I will say that he has a wonderful way of describing San Francisco -- from the alleys of the Tenderloin to Golden Gate Park.
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Summary: Suspenseful page-turner and great summer reading!
Review: I just finished this book, my first Frank Robinson novel and found it a classic page-turner that I have already highly recommended to others as a fun, fast, innovatively-premised, and suspenseful read. I can't wait to read another Robinson novel! "Waiting" is just a very good book that has a well-plotted story with a credible protagonist. This is not a science book nor should it be. It is just good science-fiction wrapped around a 'who done it' suspense novel that I found most entertaining.
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Summary: Wonderfully spooky!
Review: This book will really make you wonder the human species and their origins. This is a must-read in my opinion!
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Summary: Waiting drove me crazy!
Review: This is one goosebump of a read! There are people living among us who look just like us & they've been here for a long, long time - waiting. They are not, however, exactly like us at all. In the beginning we are hurled into a gasping, chilling chase. The sense of being watched, of being...well, herded? As human reason surrenders to something else, we scurry & scamper before an enemy we can't see. I did like this one! Shivers & glimmers & things that go bump! All the right ingredients for a good yarn!...............
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Summary: scary, fascinating
Review: This is my first Robinson book, and I enjoyed it. The pacing was quick, the premise interesting, and the first third is a real page turner. It seems as though Mr. Robinson trails off at the end, and the loose ends are tied up a bit too neatly...but I can forgive the plot devices and heavy hand thanks to the thrill ride offered up in the beginning. I would recommend this book, and plan to read more of Robinson's work.
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Summary: Riveting piffle
Review: I am embarassed that I finished this book; it is my dirty little secret. Most of the reviewers got it right...heavy handed, predictable, not well thought-out. It moves along, to be sure. But so does a train before it crashes.
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Summary: WAITING for some excitement? Look elsewhere.
Review: Wow, what a disappointment. I'd just finished a horrible book (Furnace) and thought I'd stumbled upon some redemption. And, I had...until about one-third of the way through this book. That's when the pacing became labored, the story preachy, and the occurrences too coincidental. As many other readers have indicated, there was a great premise and one that had you turning the pages at the beginning. Unfortunately, Frank Robinson seems to have lost his focus, and merely finished this book just to get it done (kind of like why I bothered reading the whole thing myself). Interesting? In the scientific-anthropologic sense. Suspenseful? Hardly. A page-turner? Not even close. Save your time and money and read something...anything...else.
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Summary: Great ride, pathetic ending
Review: Frank Robinson is clearly a gifted writer, and this book had me glad I had shelled out the cash for it - until the end. Such a great read deserved far more than the preachy, guilt-ridden "oh, aren't we human beings pigs" ending it climaxed with. My advice? Don't waste your cash. I wish I had mine back.
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Summary: A lot of environmental sermonizing.
Review: Most of the fiction I've read lately has the same theme: mankind is evil because we're destroying the environment. Earth worshipping tribes are wiser, kinder and more deserving than the rest of humanity. This book adds a twist but sermonizes in similar vein. It is filled with characters who are at least amoral and frequently monstrous. I long for the days when fiction was entertainment and you always knew who the good guy was. Apparently, that kind of book is doomed to extinction.
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