This novel was pretty slow in the fourth fifth. It was just long to no purpose. If I had not been driving I could have had a drinking game based on occurences of "yeb vas" and calling Russians "those bastards." If it hadn't been in audio form I'd have been hard pressed to stay with it.
The last part opened with a sudden shift into very technical details about flying a helicopter. This was the setup for the final action climax which was about an hour or more of tension over the fuel gauge, air speed, and deadlines when read aloud and could be summarized, "they ran out of fuel just as they made a close landing on the ship and got away."
Still, it must not have been that bad, because when I started Dan Brown's Angels and Demons immediately afterward, I found myself groaning and rolling my eyes. A lot.
Posted to Books at December 10, 2004 6:55 PM