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  <title><![CDATA[The Last Theorem]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frederik Pohl]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Arthur C. Clarke]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I thought this was a good book. It was Clarke's last book (mainly authored by another sci-fi great, Fred Pohl, from 50 pages of Clarke's notes) and kind of stands as an homage to his work and ideas - it has a &quot;skyhook&quot; space elevator based on Sri Lanka (Fountains of Paradise), the Grand G...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49445304">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 09 02:11:21 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 09 13:19:13 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book was, especially at the beginning, not at all what I expected. It was mostly a novel about a young man growing up, and not much mathematics, or science fiction in evidence. There is a second, smaller, storyline that is interwoven within this story which is very much sf. But in the end it was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42436306">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[From what I have read Frederick Pohl actually wrote this book based on a few notes from a dying Arthur Clarke.  <br/><br/>Pohl managed to turn this book into a tribute to Clarke's best known work including, but probably not limited to <em>2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, and Fountain's of Parad...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41084266">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45463667">
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 05 09:59:46 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Despite the unparalleled reputation of its authors, no critic was very impressed by <em>The Last Theorem</em>. All of its major ideas and themes, one reviewer pointed out, have been more ably explored by Clarke and Pohl in other novels (see Clarke's <em>2001: A Space Odyssey</em>, <em>Rendezvous with Rama</em>, and <em>The Founta...</em></p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45463667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39051910">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall, the word I'd use to describe this book is &quot;shallow.&quot;  Clarke and Pohl, two big names in SF, have managed to take two interesting concepts (Fermat's Last Theorem and alien sterilization of Earth) and turn them into a boring book.  It's as if they said one day, &quot;Well, we've suc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39051910">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33900307">
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why I read this book: I don't have &quot;favorite authors&quot;, but if I did, Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl would certainly be on my shortlist. Both have books in my Top 6, and Clarke's <em>Against the Fall of Night</em> is pretty much the book that made me a lifetime reader of Science Fiction. Both ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33900307">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cool book so far - just picked it up at the library.  Didn't realize how current it was - it works a lot of geo-politics into the story, takes a swipe at the torture scandal, and paints a mostly bleak picture of our current world, with just a few rays of hope.  Overall I'd say pretty realistic!!  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60885750">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating book. Throughout it I kept wondering how the story of the main character is going to tie in with the aliens subplot... The answer is &quot;very loosely&quot;.<br/><br/>The motivations of aliens were kind of vague, probably intentionally. I didn't understand why the Grand Galactics chan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50940547">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32142323">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a big fan of Frederik Pohl's <em>Gateway</em> saga, and most anything by Arthur C. Clarke, so I was interested to read this book to see what a collaboration between the two of them would be like.  It was pretty disappointing, unfortunately.  The story focuses on Ranjit Subramanian, a young college studen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32142323">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65349700">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was very disappointed in the book, not at all like Clarke's other books.  I know it came from Clarke's notes and Pohl did the writing.  It did have all the elements of Clarke's classic SciFi but it lacked in organized thought.  <br/><br/>Many backstories needed to be filled in, on many occasions...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65349700">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31633974">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Sep 05 06:44:50 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I reread the 2001 series earlier this year, and this definitely felt like Arthur C. Clarke's writing (I haven't read any Pohl, so can't compare...)  It's the story of a Sri Lankan guy who ends up solving Fermat's last theorem fairly early in his life, and what happens to him (and the earth) after th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31633974">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28988383">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I probably should have given it two instead of three stars. Tells the story of a Ranjit, a math genius in Sri Lanka, and his attempt to solve Fermat's Last Theorem. He does in a dramatic setting that is described too breezily. The most of the book is a biography of Ranjit over the next decades, cros...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28988383">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76157936">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as I had hoped. Some interesting things in the book around mathematics, but just not a very powerful story or even (surprisingly) that well written.]]></body>
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    <review id="72787411">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50847.Variable_Star" title="Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein">Variable Star</a>.]]></body>
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    <review id="30562207">
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    <body><![CDATA[i wish that Clarke had been in better health and lived on to write this book on his own. i've never read Pohl but i'm not sure i cared for where he took this book. it seemed unfocused and while the title is utilized in the storyline it was pushed aside quickly. it wasn't even used as a metaphor. i l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30562207">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59820048">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first quarter or half of this book was most enjoyable.  But eventually I found myself thinking &quot;Get on with it!&quot; as time was spent on the trivial, non-interesting parts of the main characters' lives.  The climax isn't very climactic.  But the thing reminded me of why I liked Clarke yea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59820048">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the few examples of mathematical SF I can think of (Flatland... Chaos in Wonderland ... any others?) makes this novel interesting, but it's saddled with this cumbersome narrative style, and I don't know whether to blame Clarke or Pohl. Probably Pohl, as Clarke was barely able to explain his n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30497403">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a little disappointed in this.  The premise was promising but I think the story would have been better with a touch more &quot;gravistas&quot; to it.  Was this a book for adolescents?  The writing style made me think that may be the case.  Too bad. I really like both authors. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up because Arthur C. Clarke has always been one of my favorite Sci-Fi writers. It took me awhile to really get into this book. But, the premise held my interest. Eventually it picked up. Definately not my favorite workd by Clarke, but still interesting to read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not the best book by Clarke I have ever read and a couple of times I almost put it down.  Fortunately there are several passages, mostly about number theory, that are gripping in the way that is unique to those old science fiction masters like Clark, Asimov and Heinlein.]]></body>
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