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  <title><![CDATA[Goliath]]></title>
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  <default_description>Commander Rochelle &quot;Rocky&quot; Jackson is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when the &quot;unsinkable&quot; naval vessel and its entire fleet are attacked from the depths and sunk. As Rocky struggles to stay alive, a monstrous mechanical steel stingray surfaces, plowing through the seas it now commands. A U.S. Navy-designed futuristic nuclear stealth submarine the length of a football field in the shape of a giant stingray. Simon Covah, a brilliant scientist whose entire family were the victims of terrorism has hijacked the sub. Believing violence is a disease, Covah aims to use the Goliath and its cache of nuclear weapons to dictate policy to the world regarding the removal of oppressive regimes and nuclear weapons.Could the threat of violence forge a lasting peace?But there is another player in this life-and-death chess match. Unbeknownst to Covah and the Goliath crews, Sorceress, the Goliath's biochemical computer brain has become self-aware.And that computer brain is developing its own agenda.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2002</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Steve Alten]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[U.S. stealth technology is stolen by the Chinese and used against a US warship killing thousands of naval personnel and almost starting WWIII.  The race is on to find this invisible &quot;Goliath&quot; before further atrocities are committed.  Unfortunately there really arent' any characters that ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50648691">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Top notch thriller. A madman has built a nuclear submarine whose computer is a self-aware A.I.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 21 11:31:52 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Exactly what I expect from Steve Alten. Rich, exciting characterization and FACTS. No other author catches my interest and holds on like Steve Alten.  And Goliath is more of the same. I actually end up caring what happens next.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another fun Steve Alten novel that focuses on a computer controlled submarine that becomes self aware and decides to start a war.  It's cliched to the extreme (how many times do writers have to use that lame &quot;bolt of lightening brings machine to life&quot; scenario... which was reused in &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22917827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73369236">
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating.]]></body>
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    <review id="14074039">
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  <date_added>Wed Jan 30 12:24:28 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing book, I've never read a book that fast. I couldn't put it down, which really wasn't good during finals!!<br/><br/>If you have any interest in A.I. or just like underwater / submarine stories, this is the book for you. Also, it had a good solution for dictatorial / repressive governments, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14074039">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Techno rich fun novel. The premise is very frightening, a lightening bolt did it is out-played but it did hold my attention.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28722209]]></url>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Outstanding &quot;neuvo-tech&quot; book. Excellent story telling in a horrif setting. Another great Steve Alten book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really dig the high tech adventure novels and Goliath doesn't disappoint.]]></body>
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