[nesfa-reading-group] The Spare Man

[David G. Grubbs]

OK, I give up. A google search says:  Dulbecco's Phosphate-Buffered
Saline (DPBS)
is a balanced salt solution used for a variety of cell culture applications.

What else could DPBS mean?


On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 12:34 PM Shelly Thomas <yellerdoggy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am also unable to attend tonight.  Here is my review.  I enjoyed the
> book, it was an easy mostly entertaining read.  If this book was a painting
> it would be one of those graphic art ones done in all primary colors.  Some
> of the more interesting plot themes weren't developed like the interplay
> between the two famous roboticists.  I'm giving the book a 6/13 overall
> though primarily because too much of the book was spent on the DPBS which
> got really tiresome.
> Shelly
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2024, 1:38 PM Wesley Brodsky <wesbrodsky at alum.mit.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone;
>>
>> I will not be attending Friday, so will leave this review of “The Spare
>> Man”.
>>
>> Based on my main criterion, the extent to which the novel retained my
>> interest and it was not a chore to have to go to the next chapter, this
>> novel was good.
>>
>> This was to a large extent a traditional murder mystery; which could
>> occur aboard an ocean ship or a train. I only noticed two occasions where
>> being in a space ship had a important effect on the plot; that the mass
>> aboard the ship was carefully monitors and Coriolis effect changed the
>> trajectory of something thrown
>>
>> Based on those criteria, I give it a 9/13.
>>
>> -Wes
>>
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