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    <body><![CDATA[In <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351964.Glimmering_A_Novel" title="Glimmering  A Novel by Elizabeth Hand">Glimmering</a>, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/40983.Elizabeth_Hand" title="Elizabeth Hand">Elizabeth Hand</a> imagines an apocalyptic, but not cataclysmic end of the end.  It's like the difference between dying on the sidewalk from a massive heart attack &amp; dying in inches from Alzheimer's in your own bed; the destination is the same, but the path is pretty different.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61020270">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I will probably just return this to the library unfinished - I've gotten to the stage of jumping ahead and looking for the part where it starts to make sense.  <br/><br/>The beautiful, almost magical writing that Hand exhibited in her collection of short stories is nowhere to be found in this stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25108725">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Glimmering is the fifth book of Hand's that I've read. Different again from the other four. There seems to be a race to get to the climax which is at odds with some of the spookier moments, and, while everything gets wrapped up in a &quot;poetic&quot; way, this isn't the kind of novel that lends its...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3334296">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read that this book was disjunctive and jumped around a lot, every other chapter went back and forth between 2 converging stories.  I liked the format and looked forward to what was next.  There were many interesting visuals as to THE END, however, when I reached the end of the end, my only r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45385764">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Local bookclub selection for August. This book was highly recommended by a writer and reader whose judgement I trust. Something about it didn't work for me. Depressing appocolypticism aside I found this work hard to read. Her recreation of the world was quite compelling and captivating but I found m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27519342">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is ...odd to say the least. I need to read it again to see if I can get anything more out of it. The only character that really compelled me was Marz, no one else was overly exciting. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A tale of the dying world after the ozone is breached. Some unusual imagery written well. But a very surreal plot and tone, which just isn't my cup of coffee. Still, I liked her writing enough to try another book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Strange and surreal...a perfect Y2K book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a disappointment! I was eagerly reading, enjoying it (despite some enormous flaws) up until a page or two before the ending, when she started to kill off characters instead of resolve open plot lines. I'm just glad I borrowed it instead of buying it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a book I read almost on accident. I was waiting for a friend to pick me up and I saw it on the shelf. I wound up reading the entire book in one sitting. A very odd and engrosing tale.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[No preventing the apocalypse in this one, it's already happened and torn the sky. Survivor's story, but you realize his is just one view of the new world. So, so cool.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about a very possible future. It's a great cyber punk kind of book. ]]></body>
    
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