Well, I've now read all of the Tanner series. Sadly they did not continue to as entertaining as the first few.

This one is tied with the Scoreless Thai as the worst. Not for any reasons that many people might site - like sex with minors, making terrorism a sort of good guy thing. Because like all things of that nature - it really is a subjective race to hell.
Not even for the unrealistic elements - like Tanner's insomnia or his last frozen time traveling thing. After all, I didn't pick them up for gritty realism, I picked them up for escapist fun.

No my problem with them was they got boring and drafty. I pick up a book like this not because I want great literature. I pick it up for the same reason I watch Action Flicks - to lose myself in something that has no relationship with my life. I can't do that if it's boring.

And when its boring, I start to pick up on the annoying stupid stuff. Like Block apparently thinks only blondes are worthy of being Tanner's sex partner. All of them, whether they are caucasian or not - blond. Its a bit more than weird, but not really a reason to hate it.

I like things to move along and not get bogged down in exposition of all the possible angles of thought, or opinions that go on for a page and a half or long lists of things that one sees around one. So the last few novels had several parts that were skimmed rather than read.

And then he lost the humor somewhere. I mean I guess it was attempted but I didn't notice it like I did in The Cancelled Czchek or The thief who couldn't sleep.

I enjoyed the trips for the most part. I read them all, and I'm apt to put down a book if it bores me too much. But they definitely lost the bloom for both him and I about half way through the series.

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