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    <body><![CDATA[Ship Of Fools<br/><br/>I will keep this review short and to the point.<br/><br/>I have seen many B-film slasher movies, you know the type; brave girl decides it’s a good idea to check on the strange noise coming from the dark room. WHAM! Her head is chopped off… GEEEZ!<br/><br/>This book i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74099574">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good creepy distant future sci-fi.  There are parts in the book that remind me of Sphere and the movie Event Horizon too.  The main character is the classic anti-hero, all the way down to his gimp leg.  You can read it in a day if you move your eyes really fast.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Decent.  Mostly entertaining.  Plays around with faith, but often clunky and unconvincing in that category, graceless in both senses.  It won a &quot;Philip K. Dick&quot; award, but it is nowhere near Dick.<br/><br/>So, bottom line: decent and mostly entertaining, but, unlike it's blurbs' claims, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31022683">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful little known sci fi book. Reads almost like a screen play; this needs to be made into a movie. Well paced, tightly written. Sort of from the Solaris school of we will never understand our universe or other beings (though not nearly as deep or well written.) Anyway, it's a great, quick read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48402583">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great premise, but it's like reading the second book of a trilogy, except without the benefit of the first and third volumes.  And what was with the gruesome scene with the corpses on meat-hooks?  Lots of unanswered questions.  Still, I enjoyed the ride.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've started it about 4 times. It looks great and really interesting. I just keep not being able to get into it because of... I'm not really sure. I'll just say it's because of stuff.]]></body>
    
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