false 156781 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478m/156781.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478s/156781.jpg 156781 6 151293 1995 Distress total:134|5:22|4:60|3:39|2:13|1:0| 134 493 224 14 32699 3.88 1661 234 9366038 416390 156781 0061057274 9780061057274 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478m/156781.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478s/156781.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156781.Distress 3.70 129 1995 2 3 false Tue Nov 20 14:24:02 -0800 2007 Mon May 26 10:39:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 697629 57709 156781 0061057274 9780061057274 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478m/156781.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478s/156781.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156781.Distress 3.68 134 1995 5 1 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Apr 12 18:15:52 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 12 18:29:43 -0700 2007
They are:

Zero: understanding how our understanding of math helped us unders...more...]]> 57477721 122162 156781 0061057274 9780061057274 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478m/156781.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478s/156781.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156781.Distress 3.68 134 1995 3 0 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 06:17:53 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 07:53:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 51977171 2195520 156781 0061057274 9780061057274 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478m/156781.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478s/156781.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156781.Distress 3.68 134 1995 4 0 false Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 14:37:07 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 15:58:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 55730125 772809 1151992 0061052647 9780061052644 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181433947m/1151992.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181433947s/1151992.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1151992.Distress_A_Novel 3.33 3 1995 2 0 false Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 17:44:32 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 12:11:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 8812493 569843 156781 0061057274 9780061057274 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478m/156781.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478s/156781.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156781.Distress 3.68 134 1995 5 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Wed Nov 07 17:24:15 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 07 17:25:14 -0800 2007 more...]]> 37481071 65714 156781 0061057274 9780061057274 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478m/156781.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478s/156781.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156781.Distress 3.68 134 1995 3 0 false Tue Nov 11 19:49:43 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 11:51:53 -0800 2008
It was jam packed with interesting ideas about the future, but the core plot was sort of silly and began to buckle under its own weight towards the end. The ending was...interesti...more...]]> 55609228 250836 156781 0061057274 9780061057274 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478m/156781.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478s/156781.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156781.Distress 3.68 134 1995 3 0 false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 17:06:41 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 09:30:23 -0700 2009
I wish I...more...]]> 43528855 1325912 156781 0061057274 9780061057274 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478m/156781.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643478s/156781.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156781.Distress 3.68 134 1995 2 0 false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 19:45:55 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 21:06:22 -0800 2009
By the end I had a hard time mustering up the interest to continue reading. The "Aleph moment" did not capture my fancy and all the talk of Distress and the mixing plague was so much blather.

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