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  <title><![CDATA[A Life Transparent]]></title>
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  <default-description>Donovan Candle is an average guy living a painfully normal life with his wife Donna and their house cat Mr. Precious Paws. By day he toils as a telemarketer while clinging to a dying hope of becoming a successful author. But that changes one morning when Donovan awakens to find he is afflicted with a bizarre transparency and visions of a monochromatic world. No one notices his fading self-not even his wife-and by the end of the week, Donovan is at his wits' end. During a telemarketing call, he confesses to a stranger, &quot;If something doesn't happen to me soon, I'm just going to disappear for good.&quot; That evening he arrives home to discover his wife is missing. The phone rings, and on the line is a man who refers to himself as Aleister Dullington-the same man to whom Donovan made his confession. It is with his introduction that Donovan begins an endeavor to save not just his wife but his own existence, and in doing so he will learn the meaning-and danger-of a life transparent.</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't really review this book objectively because I'm the guy who wrote it.  I would recommend it to anyone out there who may enjoy the likes of Dean Koontz or Neil Gaiman; I'd also recommend it to anyone currently working in a dead end job.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can honestly say that I have never read a book like this one.  I don't read many sci-fi books, but I did like this book.  It was well-written and a page turner!  It made me think about my own life and how easy it is to get trapped in the mundane aspects of my day!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting premise - short, easy to read, and kept my interest throughout.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was furturistic and exciting. I liked it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, what can I say? I have never really been a fan of the whole sci-fi thing. However, this book was selected for our book club. I am so glad I read it. It is a relatively short book, with a big message. It really made me stop and think about the way I live my life and my routines. To me, any book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58306484">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book greatly, I enjoyed the storyline and loved the characters. This novel is fresh in every way possible, I loved it and I'll always be glad to have it among my many books. Todd knows how to write, so if I were you I pick up this book and do not put it down, this is not the kind of sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25180317">more...</a>]]></body>
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