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Boring AF - Avoid

Revisado: 10-22-23

I’m a big fan of The Firm and enjoy Grisham in general, even many of the very formulaic stories, so I was really looking forward to The Exchange.

Not only was this an extremely boring book, the characters were so bland that I couldn’t have cared less if any of them died.

There was also no real need to have written this with Mitch & Abby. There were just a couple small throwbacks to The Firm, and neither were essential or added anything meaningful to the story that couldn’t have been substituted by a different person or place.

Performance was okay I guess

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Excellent

Revisado: 06-28-18

It has, at times, almost been romantic in some of its views, and, if certain sections had ended early, certainly would have presented a romantic view. Just as a position starts to look great, all the counter views are laid bare.

Sometimes it was a bit reductionist, but it covered the entire sweep of human history, from natural selection happenstance to today with speculations of future possibilities. It was viewed through the lens of the cognitive revolution, agricultural revolution, and industrial revolution (with the pros and cons of each laid bare). Because of such a large scope, I gave a pass to some of the reductions as most of them didn’t change the overall narrative.

Ultimately, this book raised way, way more questions than it answered for all aspects of humanity, and for that, I found it both fascinating and refreshing.

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Better Written than the First Two

Revisado: 08-14-17

The plot still has some holes, the dialogue is still a little stiff, and the characters are still a little shallow, but it's much better writing than the first two books in the series. The story is fun, but there are a few instances of lazy writing, e.g. where the dialogue is identically copied from one scene to another.

Fun enough to buy though.

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Better than the first

Revisado: 08-12-17

The writing is still a bit sketchy, with shallow characters and stiff dialogue, but the writing is slowly maturing and getting better (definitely better than the first book).

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Fun but...

Revisado: 08-10-17

This story is fun, but the writing really would have benefited from a good editor: it's often a bit rough, and there are some inconsistencies that aren't very well explained.

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Intelligent and entertaining

Revisado: 08-04-17

This story manages to walk a balance between being thoughtful (perhaps a little ostentatious at points), but still engaging without being convoluted or overwhelming like a few epic fantasy and sci if stories I can think of. I look forward to the second half.

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Mediocre

Revisado: 06-01-17

A few pages out of Foundation and some meh storytelling. It has potential to develop into something great with subsequent books.

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The series is getting better.

Revisado: 05-30-17

The writing quality is much better and more matured from books one and two, and the quality of the story has increased as well.

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Meh

Revisado: 05-26-17

The story was entertaining overall, but was pretty poorly written. Much of the dialogue is a repeat from the first book. The monkey jokes get very old very quickly. You think they may stop, but they keep on going. Perhaps I just don't understand the joke, but the repetition in the banter between Bishop & Skippy gets pretty irritating.

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Not as good as the others.

Revisado: 09-16-15

I definitely appreciate the story's continued emphasis upon violence against women and against the disabled, but the character development & plot are not near the same quality of the original books.

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