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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.  It’s no wonder Richard K. Morgan became such a phenomenon in the science fiction world so quickly.  His first novel, “Altered Carbon” is so well crafted that it bears no hints of being a first novel.  His imagination and story telling is absolutely amazing.  Although it is absolutely ful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20983341">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I first read this book back in 2004.  I really loved it, and read the next book in the series, <strong>Broken Angels</strong> right away.  I have re-read <strong>Altered Carbon</strong> for a RL book group and will go on and re-read <strong>Broken Angels</strong> too.  My plan is to get up to speed on the story again so I can read the final bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21615312">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmm...I can't remember why I picked up this book. I think I read about it on a friend's blog. I read most of it today and finished it off. But it was sort of painful at times -- the last 50 pages were sort of agony to read, but by that point, you just have to finish the damn thing.<br/><br/>Not spe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18905103">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best books I have ever had the pleasure of reading. While not as grand in scope as the other two Kovacs novels (Broken Angels and Woken Furies) Altered Carbon serves as a perfect introduction to Morgans protagonist Takeshi Kovacs. Altered Carbon is a gritty fast paced sci-fi action/detect...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16880545">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really debated over what rating to give this book.  Three seemed too low, 4 seems a bit high.  Overall, it's a good read.  A little lacking in emotional draw, but it makes up for that in interesting details and a few nods to philosophy.<br/><br/>I could go all feminist on this novel, too.  Basic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27110391">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[   Beginning of the winter I bought a deep stack of science fiction books to get me through the tough times.  Altered Carbon was the last of those books to be read.  And Holy crap, the best was saved for last!  It has everything.  Bitchin science concepts, cool tech, ruthless and thoughtful characte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23038335">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book by this author I've read, and I was very impressed.  It's basically noir, very dark and rather brutal noir at that, but set in a very futuristic timeframe where people can &quot;resleeve&quot; into other bodies, sometimes their own, sometimes clones, and sometimes into ones th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4454859">more...</a>]]></body>
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