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    <body><![CDATA[Although clever, I did not find this book funny, or scary.  It provided good social commentary.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[[from my book lover's journal at the time of reading:]<br/>I read this in one day, so obviously it's an easy read. Strangely, the diction changes about 1/3 through, when Morrow decides to use a large number of &quot;vocabulary words.&quot; As with <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4007.Mary_Doria_Russell" title="Mary Doria Russell">Mary Doria Russel</a>'s <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334176.The_Sparrow" title="The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell">The Sparrow</a>, the ending couldn'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13788993">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Poses a future where brainwashing and government intervention prevents you from being able to lie. Creativity is dead, as are most enjoyable experiences. As a reader who is generally opposed to legislation, I immediately resonate with the protagonist's developing resentment towards all the rules res...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57694185">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been over a decade since I have read this. However, after reviewing <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Truth Machine" title=" The Truth Machine"> The Truth Machine</a>, I felt I should mention this one, as well. From the few books of his that I have read, it seems that <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= James Morrow" title=" James Morrow"> James Morrow</a> comes up with a unique twist on something and then runs it with as long as possible. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37940396">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this little novelette about a city where people are conditioned (think Clockwork Orange-conditioned) not to lie and how that affects their lives. I even, umm, teared up at the end, because I am lame. A very quick read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good read, even if Morrow does lean towards the depressingly morose and tends towards martyring women(though in this case it's a boy)a little too often for my happiness.<br/><br/>It's an interesting idea, a city where everyone is forced to speak truthfully and instead of leading to bliss, it cre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30199910">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Really interesting concept and good ideas, a little lightweight in the execution but a quick, fun read. I'd give it 3.5 if there were half stars in this rating system.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Scifi Museum: Wow. Funny for the first half, heartbreaking for the second. Great stuff.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just starting this one. After having REALLY enjoyed Towing Jehovah, I can't wait to see what the rest of Morrow's work is like.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Like 1984, this is an anti-utopian book.  However, it starts from a premise that everyone would like to believe would work: everyone has to tell the truth.  It shows how even an often-wished reality would really, once again, be worse than expected.  Read it.  As an honesty junkie, I enjoyed it and a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4733344">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this came highly recommended. it's about a backward science fiction world where everyone tells the truth. i couldn't get into it. clever, yes. interesting, no. <br/><br/>but then it takes some pretty good science fiction (or magical realism) to overcome my aversion to the genre.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In theory, I should really like this book. It's a good idea, and it was even executed passably well. I was just so bothered by so many people considering things to be lies that obviously weren't lies.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sort of an interesting science-fiction writer with a philosophical soft-touch.  If I remember correctly, the author has lived and worked in the town where I went to college.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Clever with the flying and pigs and the money that grows on trees. I'm a sci-fi fan so this was a quick and fun read with lots of ties to Brave New World.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fun, quick story about a man who goes out of his way to try to save his son from a fatal disease. Funny and touching all at the same time.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The jacket summary of this book is far more entertaining than the book itself.  Great idea, not particularly well executed.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Jack leads a rather routine life as a &quot;deconstructionist,&quot; destroying old works of art, until his beloved son contracts a rare disease. Jack must now somehow learn to lie if, as he comes to believe, lying is the only way to give young Toby enough hope to effect a cure. Morrow is the award-winning author of Only Begotten Daughter.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[interesting satire - everyone has been conditioned to tell the truth - always.  one can only imagine!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Jack leads a rather routine life as a &quot;deconstructionist,&quot; destroying old works of art, until his beloved son contracts a rare disease. Jack must now somehow learn to lie if, as he comes to believe, lying is the only way to give young Toby enough hope to effect a cure. Morrow is the award-winning author of Only Begotten Daughter.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good novella that explores the importance of truth and the usefulness of lies. A quick evening read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A simple, quick read, yet funny, tragic and very smart. The &quot;burn&quot; scene was chilling. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[if you like a formula that works, you will love this book half as much as i did]]></body>
    
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