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    <body><![CDATA[An only OK Sci Fi read. Much like most of the other reviews there is the hollow feeling of faint disappointment (damn the raised bar of MAster and Margarita). My opinion of the book maybe tainted by reading it on a red eye flight.<br/><br/>Though it has the 5 star line &quot;... the cockroaches, d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25052966">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ei veldig festlig bok om vitenskap gone wrong. Anbefales!]]></body>
    
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