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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fascinating story of an ethnobotanists exploration of haitian voodou culture and zombification. First of all, I learned that zombification is real and it is a kind of punishment in haitian society for various social transgressions.<br/>Wade Davis went to Haiti in 1982 to try to learn wha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76123562">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading and at first made breezy progress through Davis's book. I found the tone immediately grabbed me: the dry introduction to this work's attempt to capture the culturally accurate spelling of zombi and vodoun, even Davis's amazing, spectacular, and a little too self-satisfied adventure...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72609086">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[	In 1982 Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis ventured to Haiti to learn if and how voodoo sorcerers turn people into zombies.  His motive?  Their poisons, he thought, might be medically valuable—the way curare, an arrow poison discovered by Harvard ethnobotanist Schultes, had proved valuable as a m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67367087">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmmm. I read a review of this book while I was reading it even tho it I knew it was  a mistake to do so. Anyway - someone said that the 1st 2/3 of the book was great but the last third was dull. I agree with that assessment completely and can't help thinking if I think that b/c I read that review f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43892482">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Too bad they made this wonderful book into a horror flick. The book is about a Harvard trained ethnobotanist who goes to Haiti to learn about some of the naturally occuring compounds used in the voudoun culture. The hope is that some of the active compounds may provide a safer alternative to general...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52417380">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Zombies are all the rage these days. Heck, there are even warnings about them on the trafic signs. If you need a fix of zombie but a re getting a bit tired of the cliches, here are two classics that look at zombies in the context of West Indian legend. Wade Davis got interested in zombies via the ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48756879">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So, what does sashimi and zombies have in common?  More than you ever expected.  <br/><br/>I don't want to give too much away, but I highly recommend that anyone interested in science, history, or religion read this amazing true book about an ethnobotanist's search for a drug that is used in Haiti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34061556">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book blew my MIND - don't see the movie, it's total bunk, but this book is bad ass. Basically, this story starts with somebody who a doctor in Port Au Prince, using up-to-date medical technologies, diagnoses as dead and leaves them to be buried. Decades later, this person is found, alive but in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4608267">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating true life account of four years spent in the Voudoun culture by Davis, a  Harvard ethnobotanist sent on a mission to explore the mysteries of &quot;zombis.&quot; Not pure sci-fi, the phenomenon is given real attention, both as cultural myth and actual occurance (the events are set off ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3935043">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wade Davis's The Serpent and the Rainbow is, of course, nothing like the movie. Thank god. Davis, an ethnobotanist, travels to Haiti to learn the medical truths about zombification and becomes enamored of voodoo society and its practitioners. No one attacks him, no one kills his pals, and he isn't, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7525294">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a very long time since I read this book, but I have never forgotten the impression it had on me at the time. Although I would have to reread this one to refresh the details, I found it a fascinating non-fiction read. Yes, this is not your 21st century zombie horror, this is a study of the real ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79843269">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The prose is a little dense, but the sheer exoticness of the story and the setting make it easy not to notice. I enjoyed the book until about two-thirds of the way through, at which point the most interesting conflict in the book is resolved. After that, Davis feels the need to continue for another ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55960343">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't watch the movie. It was awful. The book reads like a conversation between the author and the reader. There are times when he is almost thinking outloud in trying to understand this zombi phenomenon.<br/><br/>The book is divided into three sections: 1) his initial travels to and discoveries, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19201258">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't worry, this book has very little to do with the laughably shitty movie with the same name. It's just a fascinating book about Haitian culture, politics, folklore  and botany (and zombies) that reads like a novel. Highly recommended if you have any interest in Haiti. Or zombies.]]></body>
    
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