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From: maverick@trwatf.UUCP (Mark D. Grover)
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Subject: Re: _War Day_ Any opinions?
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 09:08:30 EST
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> > Has anyone read the book _War Day_, by  Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka?
> > What did you think of it?
> > 
> I just read this book in March and enjoyed it, but found it a bit unreal.
> It is hard for me to believe that the Powers in charge would destroy only
> a "few" American/Russian cities and leave the rest of the world untouched.
> 
Interesting.  I found the scenarios (full of human and machine fallibility)
to be very believable.  Yet I found the style hard to get excited about. But
I don't like travelogues anyway.  I found it as depressing and scary as it
was no doubt supposed to be.
-- 
MDG

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