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  <title><![CDATA[Ghost In The Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface (Ghost in the Shell)]]></title>
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  <default-description>March 6, 2035. Motoko Aramaki is a hyper-advanced cyborg, a counter-terrorist net security expert heading the investigative department of the giant multi-national, Poseidon Industrial. Partly transcending the physical world and existing in a virtual world of networks, Motoko is a fusion of multiple entities and identities, deploying remotely controlled prosthetic humanoid surrogates around the globe to solve a series of bizarre crimes. Meanwhile, Tamaki Tamai, a psychic investigator from the Channeling Agency, has been commissioned to investigate strange changes in the temporal universe,  brought about by two forces, one represented by the teachings of a professor named Rahampol, and the other by the complex, evolving Motoko entity. What unfolds will be all in a day's work...a day that will change everything, forever.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-day type="integer">19</original-publication-day>
  <original-publication-month type="integer">1</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2005</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Ghost In The Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface (Ghost in the Shell)</original-title>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Aug 05 19:05:56 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are some great ideas explored in this book, and the writing is great.  What i found disappointing about the book was its reliance on fan service as a selling point.  As far as i can tell from my own perspective, this book would be bought and read by anyone familiar with the series who read the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3529167">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 24 10:43:05 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 02 09:51:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has got to be literally the single longest book that I have read wherein <em>nothing happens</em> for the majority of the book.<br/><br/>I have been through Man-Machine Interface several times cover to cover, and I have to say that the entire 'plot' of the book - so called - could have easily fit into...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40838309">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26460418">
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 06 14:52:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 06 15:29:15 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty much everything that was excellent about the first book has been excised in this installment. <br/>(Mostly) gone are the amazingly precise action sequences. The fanservice is impossible to ignore this time around, as it has been elevated to nearly a plot element. A mature reader cannot help ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26460418">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43370474">
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 17 12:08:49 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 17 12:12:11 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very disappointing, because Shirow can do such good stuff.  A bit too much standard manga WTF.  Too much pointless nudity.  Not at all related to the film.  Entertaining enough.  In conclusion, meh.]]></body>
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    <review id="46459252">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 15 17:22:46 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 15 17:23:27 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one was a little strange.  Where is the Major?!?  The real one.]]></body>
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    <review id="8731">
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    <location><![CDATA[PRIVATE!!, Japan]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 12 17:03:56 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 12 17:09:13 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldnt understand a word they said but the artwork was one of  THE most amazing things i have ever seen! and for that it gets 5 stars. It was worth it just to look at the digital mixec whith hand drawn art. I think that is the most creative thing anyone has ever done whith manga. ]]></body>
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    <review id="27287999">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lord]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 15 01:26:05 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second volume of GITS is a really hardcore cyberpunk story. The artwork is amazing but the story is very hard to follow and will require probably repeating readings to get the knack of it. ]]></body>
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    <review id="2719941">
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  <date_updated>Sat Sep 15 01:02:59 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't tell what the hell was going on most of the time, but the artwork alone made me purchase it. ]]></body>
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    <review id="24327768">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 16 07:55:10 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jun 16 07:55:10 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm reading this because I have to for work. I just don't get it at all!]]></body>
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