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    <body><![CDATA[As good or better than Morvagine. No one writes like Cendrars. Incredible.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A Nooks McShea recommendation.  Not mind blowing like The Tenants of Moonbloom, but a good read with some amazing segments.  A rich man who was just jilted by his girlfriend goes on a drunk and asks three artists to join him, all expenses paid, on a trip to the Antarctica.  Strange cataclysmic event...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6833874">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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