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  <title><![CDATA[The Hollow Earth]]></title>
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  <default_description>In 1836,  Mason Algiers Reynolds leaves his family's Virginia farm with his father's slave,  a dog,  and a mule. Branded a murderer,  he finds sanctuary with his hero,  Edgar Allan Poe,  and together they embark on an extraordinary expedition to the South Pole,  and the entrance to the Hollow Earth. It is there,  at the center of the world,  where strange physics,  strange people,  and stranger creatures abound,  that their bizarre adventures truly begin.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1990</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Hollow Earth</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Rudy Rucker]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ There are no two ways to put this, Hollow Earth is a bad book. Period. Unlike some of my feelings about a book, whether it's a classic that I couldn't get behind or a plot overshadowed by imagery, this has nothing.<br/> <br/>The back of the book leads me to believe I'm going on a light-hearted ro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66216105">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Aug 28 11:56:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 28 11:59:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my thing.  I don't know why not, though.  This book has many of the ideas and tropes which I find most attractive, interesting, and entertaining in my reading material.  I just didn't like it.  I couldn't even get all the way through it.  Bitterly disappointed about this I was;  it looked so pro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69233116">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun stuff. Found it a little tough at the start - maybe that was just getting used to the writing style. But it soon picks up with an amusing mix of old adventure and new physics. Plus a strange L'Trimm reference?]]></body>
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    <review id="54843624">
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read many books by Rudy Rucker, and even once emailed him and got a pretty cool response (I had run into his email address while researching artificial life on line, in 1994, before there was any world wide web to speak of). I have not gotten around to adding them all to this list, but this o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54843624">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Oct 02 15:26:43 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 17 20:32:49 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lost Worlds adventure of Doyle, Verne, and most of all Poe undercut by Rucker’s weirdness and silly humor, love for physics, and fondness for Harryhausen styled monsters. A tribute to E.A. Poe with references of course to the Narrative of A. Gordon Pym and other Poe tales(“Black Cats”, “Will...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34390427">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58883066">
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    <body><![CDATA[Mark Twain on acid-excellent!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A nerdy adventure story about a mid-19th century journal into the hollow Earth.  I was expecting to like this a lot less than I did.  It was consistently both fun and interesting to read.  And for the most part firmly grounded in physics (if not reality), which is sort of amazing considering how wei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28180958">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rudy Rucker writes some crazy stuff - he genre-jumps from sci-fi to fantasy to humor with a healthy dose of mathematics and physics to really make you feel disoriented.  This is a fun book that has none other than Edgar Allan Poe as its protagonist and Edgar Rice Burrough's &quot;Hollow Earth&quot; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9395498">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="616627">
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    <body><![CDATA[TTBRMMWTRT. A history of the hollow earth movement - hey, I didn't need to read any further than that.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[DNF.  Stupid and tedious.]]></body>
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    <review id="23517330">
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    <body><![CDATA[A silly read.]]></body>
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