For the Book Group
This is the reason some people don't like going to the movies with me.
1) The FAA really is pretty strict about keeping people with "bum tickers" from piloting.
2) I'm pretty sure a doctor wouldn't keep referring to his pregnant wife's stomach containing their unborn children. Doctors know where babies come from.
Why didn't the editors catch those things?
It's not the sort of book I'm drawn to anyway, but it will be interesting to see if the other readers are less critical. I thought it was lame. Maybe the adventure part was better in the movie because actors can do a lot, but the story lines about the father and the wife needed more than a little work, as in edited out. I don't get it-- Penguin is a real publisher, but there's something fishy about the story line with the wife lining up with the Christian-Right-Which-Is-Neither point of view. They operate kind of like the Mafia.
It might be time for me to bail from the book group. The ladies are nice, but half the books are disappointing.
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