Just finished reading "Cuckoo's egg" by Cliff Stoll. It started out interestingly, but began to be repetetive for most part. And then the ending was drawn out too long. Most of the book is like "My beeper rang, I run to the switchboard/printer, call someone to make the trace,call originates in Germany, blah, blah, blah....". Yes, this is exciting to read once, but this routine repeats ad nauseam without variation for at least 10 chapters. And FBI tells him to stop snooping, only to call back later to continue snooping. This happens 1001 times and the author writes about every one of them. Of course they happened many times in real life, but thats no reason to put every event in the book. Overall, I felt, what should have been a few chapters
novelette has been beaten thinner and thinner and has squeezed out of all excitement.