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    <body><![CDATA[If not for the voice of Sangamon Taylor, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/545.Neal_Stephenson" title="Neal Stephenson">Neal Stephenson</a>'s <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/825.Zodiac" title="Zodiac by Neal Stephenson">Zodiac</a> would have been a relatively okay eco-thriller, but the book isn't just the voice of Sangamon Taylor, it IS Sangamon Taylor, and once again Stephenson's ability to create compelling leading men (think Hiro Protagonist in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash" title="Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson">Snow Crash</a>) m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71104394">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of Stephenson's early books, and although I enjoyed it pretty well it was in some ways just too much of a good thing.  It was kind of kitchen sink type of approach, throwing in a bit of everything.  Although I've heard much about Stephonson's later books and how much people love them, I'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39515283">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5486786">
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    <body><![CDATA[An early variant of Stephenson's '<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash" title="Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson">Snow Crash</a>' writing style. More down-to-earth plot, set in the present rather than the near-future, but just as much fun. It definitely feels rougher and less polished than either <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash" title="Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson">Snow Crash</a> or <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age_Or_a_Young_Lady_s_Illustrated_Primer_Bantam_Spectra_Book_" title="The Diamond Age  Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson">The Diamond Age</a>,  but it's great fun. And the description of trying to c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5486786">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I dug this. It took me a bit to get into it, as it's my first Neal Stephenson book. But it was a pretty solid eco-thriller. Well, eco-mystery, maybe is better. The protagonist rides a Zodiac around Boston Harbor and nearby rivers and tributaries, looking to bust big corporations for polluting the en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52179080">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50181245">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Zodiac is described as an eco-thriller, which about sums it up, actually!  It certainly is a thriller - I read all 290 or so pages in one (long) night, gripped from the outset.  The hero of the story is a chemist working for GEE, a direct action environmental organisation, in its Boston branch.  He'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50181245">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60946024">
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    <body><![CDATA[Avant toute chose, je me dois de prévenir le lecteur innocent que, même si <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/545.Neal_Stephenson" title="Neal Stephenson">Neal Stephenson</a> est à mon sens l’un des plus grands auteurs de Science-fiction, ce roman n’a aucunement sa place dans une collection de science-fiction, qu’elle soit éditoriale ou bibliophile. Bon, maintenant, je ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60946024">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35870373">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't find what I was looking for on my first visit to the library, so I settled for this because the author had penned one of the other books I was looking for. Glad I picked it up. Written in the first person, this yarn follows the self-proclaimed Toxic Spider-man on his crusade against giant...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35870373">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70060899">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't sure I would like this book at first.  Too much science, too technical, I thought.  But as i got further into the book, I started to really enjoy it.  I liked the fast-paced narrative style and especially the main character's casual attitude.  Nothing seemed to phase him--his house is bombe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70060899">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Kat]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Zodiac showcases all of Neal Stephenson's strengths and weaknesses pretty effectively. The charismatic but grungy anti-establishment protagonist saves Boston from dioxin poisoning from an evil corporate machine: an eco-thriller, according to the blurb on the front. It's really good; it's cleverly wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57081621">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67981995">
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, I'm now a died-in-the-wool (whatever that means) Stephenson enthusiast.  According to Goodreads, there're 14 editions of this - so it must be popular.  Lardy how I HATE liking popular things!  Nonetheless, I like it.  Yeah, yeah, Stephenson's sortof a cross between Pynchon &amp; Robert Anton Wilson ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67981995">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A much better take on a Crichton-esque plotline.  Compared to Crichton's pot-boilers this one was much better paced, much less predictable, and had lots more random, hacker-ish mentality science thrown in.  I guess that's what happens when a computer geek and nerd-among-nerds writes this kind of plo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47998277">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read and loved this book back in High school, and I've read it again a few times since.  Mark and I listened to the audio book while driving around the midwest this Thanksgiving, and it was great.  The reader has the perfect shit-eating attitude for Sangamon Taylor, and the book is full of funny l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79430443">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ecoactivism rules!]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Dec 14 16:28:02 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I liked about this book was the unfolding of the mystery, the ecological message, and the rebellious yet at times apathetic attitude of the main character. <br/>What I did not like about the book was the way it seemed to get tripped up over the details of the chemistry. It seemed to slow the b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40100673">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This profanity spewing, nitrous oxide-sucking, paranoid eco-terrorist anti-hero ST is not somebody I'd want to sit down and have a bagel with. And this book is entirely in his grating voice-- we are dragged along with him through his bouts of depression and anxiety as he neglects his girlfriend, rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38563226">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those next-Sunday SF titles that it's ambiguous whether it really counts as SF or not.  I think transgenic bacteria are sufficiently common to ease into the non-SF title.  <br/><br/>I enjoyed the book as a light read about an environmentalist and professional annoyance who ended up ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35037757">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27292152">
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    <body><![CDATA[This early novel from Neal Stephenson claims in its subtitle to be an &quot;eco-thriller,&quot; and readers are right to approach it with a bit of scepticism. First published in 1988, the plot and the narrator's attitudes exemplify an attitude toward environmentalism that seems out of date--the Gree...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27292152">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Green is the current buzzword. It is the tent that covers everything from organic, saving the environment, renewable energy, alternate fuel sources and so forth. The eco-thriller Zodiac by Neal Stephenson by predates the current fad by twenty years.<br/><br/>Sangaman Taylor works for GEE (Group o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34180158">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a professional rabble-rouser--how many times have radicals and anarchists had to defend themselves against the absurd charge that someone pays them to protest--but he's the main character in one of Stephenson's first books. I don't know, the mystery is pretty good--who's po...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37750856">more...</a>]]></body>
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