Review: Really Tiring to Read!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 28, 2013
Not my kind of book.  Too much preaching about a system that doesn't exist.  With 80 billion people on Earth it's no wonder the majority are morons!  The author creates this fictitious Earth civilization and then complains about how bad he made it!  So, write it differently.  If you really are concerned about some part of Earth's current education system, then write about it and promote any kind of fix you might have in mind.  Writing science fiction isn't going to give you a platform to do much of anything, except make some money if a book sells.Anyway, back to the story.  You take four or more idiots from Earth (the one you created) and throw them on a sparsely populated planet and expect them to "do the right things"?  Hardly going to happen.  I'm really surprised they all didn't get killed right at the beginning.  I wonder how the book would have turned out if the airplane the main characters were in didn't just happen to crash in the wilderness?  Of course that wouldn't have made much of a story but that's most likely what would have happened anyway.  I don't see the urgency of getting these kids to a farm so why didn't they just load them up on a boat going up river?  And lastly, the bully Barry was so obvious that smart people would have known immediately that he was to stupid to let go anywhere.  After the shooting incident, he should have been locked up in chains and stayed that way until loaded on the next starship back to Earth.Oh, I really hate these political/social rants at the end of each book.  If you haven't gotten your point across during the book then don't try to explain it further in an editorial or whatever.  And of course, reference the Erin Cox example you gave; you might want to re-check your facts.  You'll find out the young lady, her family and lawyer are all liars.  Erin pleaded guilty in court and admitted her version of the story was made up but you, like everyone else, was quick to scream at the school administration which actually investigated the incident properly.  They acted properly too!