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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sight. His wife and family turn into unreachable giants, the family cat becomes a predatory menace, and Scott must struggle to survive in a world that seems to be growing ever larger and more perilous--until he faces the ultimate limits of fear and existence.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading about white male privilege, racial oppression, and gender inequality, I found it interesting that I chose to read a book about a man who is losing his height at nearly an inch per week. Not only is he greatly inconvenienced because he can't reach high shelves, he is also losing his pow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23131335">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the good things to come out of the success of last year's &quot;I Am Legend&quot; is that a lot of Richard Matheson's catalog has come back into print.   This collection looks like two separate works put together--the short novel &quot;The Incredible Shrinking Man&quot; and a set of short sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38988892">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great story about a shrinking man. It really puts you in the increasingly larger shoes of a shrinking man. When a friend of mine saw the cover, they aske &quot;is that like a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' book?&quot; You really can't judge a book by it's cover. The narrative jumps around bet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3543953">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Some people will remember <em>The Incredible Shrinking Man</em> as a movie with great special effects and a surprisingly good script, given the ridiculous title.  Matheson's classic novella is the reason for that.  As Scott Carey -- husband, father, and all-around decent guy -- mysteriously shrinks, he faces unimagined horrors at every step, up to the story's surprising resolution.  It's packaged here with a number of Matheson's other classic stories, including &quot;Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,&quot; which became a popular <em>Twilight Zone</em> episode, and &quot;Duel,&quot; which was turned into a movie by a very young Steven Spielberg.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[i saw this movie at 12 yrs old and was scared to death i would start shrinking now at 33 years old i read the book and as an adult it was fantastic.a man growing smaller every day and olso the role change with his wife was a firsy of its kind in the day.i loked the fact his wife always loved him and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58263343">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was really impressed with The Incredible Shrinking Man. The horror slowly overtakes you, and not in the `things that go bump in the night' way. It's watching a man slowly lose everything that's central to him... his masculinity, his stature as head of his family, his purpose for living, and (proba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77106258">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There's not much merit to this book, but it's just plain fun. The protagonist is shrinking at the rate of an inch a day and we're given interspersing chapters of our hero as a miniscule man and various glimpses into his life at all stages of the shrinkage. <br/><br/>Ever wondered what it's like to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51779060">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Some people will remember <em>The Incredible Shrinking Man</em> as a movie with great special effects and a surprisingly good script, given the ridiculous title.  Matheson's classic novella is the reason for that.  As Scott Carey -- husband, father, and all-around decent guy -- mysteriously shrinks, he faces unimagined horrors at every step, up to the story's surprising resolution.  It's packaged here with a number of Matheson's other classic stories, including &quot;Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,&quot; which became a popular <em>Twilight Zone</em> episode, and &quot;Duel,&quot; which was turned into a movie by a very young Steven Spielberg.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Much like 'I am Legend' this is a quick and involving story involving a man taken out of the normal realm of humanity and forced to consider his place in the world.  It's quite a depressing tale at times, his low mood, ongoing dramas and dangers creating a dark journey.  Horrifying at times especial...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67441751">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book, I am now reading it for the third time.  A man exposed to a toxic substance starts shrinking.  It's very believable, all the thoughts and feelings you would experience, how it changes relationships with wife and children, the dangers that exist  as each day you become smaller.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57461675">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another &quot;classic&quot; I find &quot;underwhelming&quot;. Wonder what happened when he got smaller than the oxygen molocules his lungs needed to process?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Entertaining and engaging story. A journey through despondence to triumph.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After the marvellous <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=I am legend" title="I am legend">I am legend</a> my expectation was high. Unfortunately reading the books was a disappointment for me. It's mostly an adventure story with some creepy moments. In my opinion <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Richard Matheson" title="Richard Matheson">Richard Matheson</a> misses the chance to really show what it means to shrink inch by inch. Instead we get mostly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22288549">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just couldn't finish it off, even if it's about 250 pages (or less) only. And I really wonder why: it's a very original story (and disturbing as well), it's well written but... I simply wasn't hooked and put the book down when I had about 50 pages left to read. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first &quot;grown-up&quot; novel I ever read, at the age of 10.  And seriously, the book I just put down was that same one.  (And bearing the unbelievably low price of $1.95!)  Somehow I've managed to keep it around all these years.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[perhaps it was the fact that i chose to &quot;read&quot; this book in the audio sense.  i found the main character incredibly annoying and the writing mundane and repetitive.  i hear the movie is great, but i've never seen it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall, not a bad book...  But I read this immediately after I Am Legend, which I absolutely loved, so I went into this with very high expectations that were not met.]]></body>
    
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