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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book because, as a geographer, I can't resist anything with the word &lt;ilandscapei&gt; in the title. In fact Gaddis uses quite a few cartographic and geographic metaphors. The book is full of metaphors. I guess that's his lecturing style. This was originally a series of lectures i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62442063">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to read this book for a class and I wasn't particularly excited about it because the professor has notoriously bad taste in books, however in the end I really enjoyed it.  Each chapter of the book discusses history in a different way.  Gaddis is not writing about any one historical event, but ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39599087">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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