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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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    <review id="42436306">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <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="77741616">
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The solving of &quot;Fermat's Last Theorem&quot; was for many the Holy Grail of mathematics.  What could be crueler than a gifted mathematician writing in the margins of a book a short equation and a claim to a proof of it's correctness, then having the ungraciousness of dying without writing down t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77741616">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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    <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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    <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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  <read_at>Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a quick read, but that's not always a good thing. The story basically kept my interest but only because I looked past various failings like overly convenient plot devices, lack of decent character development (after a certain point early in the story), and a fuzzy story arc.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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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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