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  <title><![CDATA[Desolation Road]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ian McDonald]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book that is tailor made for me. A well done mix of Magic Realism and Science Fiction, with homages and small details from many writers I enjoy, from Borges to G. Wolfe, from Vance to Zelazny, going through Bradbury. The short chapters really grip you and keep you reading a little more, ti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64493724">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here is the story of Desolation Road, a ramshackle, hodgepodge little town of misfits that, over the course of its decades-long existence, would grow to be the epicenter of scandals, time travelers, a religious movement, terror cells, labor disputes, a baby in a jar, and an all-out war which would, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63238982">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4754181">
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  <date_added>Sat Aug 18 21:48:09 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I have five words for you: Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Mars.<br/><br/>If that doesn't make you want to read this book, I don't want to know you.]]></body>
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    <review id="71457790">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great, interesting read - it had time travel, talking trains, supernatural aspects, fables combined with futurism, and fighting The Man.  In short, all the things I normally love in several books condensed into one.  There are a lot of unforgettable characters - in fact, possibly too many...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71457790">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10569900">
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing interweaving of stories and details.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ce roman nous raconte comment la ville de Desolation Road naquit, vécut et mourut.<br/>Voilà, c'est vite dit, mais le dire plus lentement m'imposerait de rentrer dans entrailles de ce roman assez tortueux, et je n'en ai pas spécialement envie.<br/>Dans la préface de cette édition, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9559.Sue_Grafton" title="Sue Grafton">Gérard Klein</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71386338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25020797">
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)<br/><br/>Regular readers know that in the last year, I've ended up becoming a huge salivating fanb...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25020797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74953701">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book about magical things happening on Mars. It is a pure fantasy with only the thinnest and occasional veneer of science fiction. The writing is good and the characters well-drawn and amusingly quirky, along the lines of &quot;The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy&quot; but not as funny.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74953701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64097120">
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    <body><![CDATA[Let me be up front: I only made it through 160 pages of this book. I'm kind of ashamed to say that, but, I really tried hard to make it through it, and just couldn't.<br/><br/>After reading Cory Doctorow's review/plug for this book not too long ago on BoingBoing, I was really intrigued. Mostly bec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64097120">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68005181">
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent book. Superbly weird and weirdly superb. It's a sort of magical realist/sci-fi book of a sort I've never read before. Or even heard of. Very original. <br/><br/>The characterization and thematic development are especially outstanding 'for a sci-fi book' as well as in general. If his n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68005181">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46375880">
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    <body><![CDATA[ McDonald combines the story telling techniques of Gabriel Garcia Marquez with the weird future fables of Cordwainer Smith and Jack Vance (the fable like story telling of all three authors isn’t as different as one would think). It also exists as an examination of our contemporary myths about Mars...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46375880">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65829792">
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    <body><![CDATA[Its kind a bit like Northern Exposure on Mars. Its a magic realist story of an unlikely Martian settlement inhabited by misfits. <br/><br/>I loved the first half or so, and the end. The more traditional military adventure plot in the second half of the book was not too much my cup of tea, though I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65829792">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61901399">
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    <body><![CDATA[i think i've read this before but cory doctorow says i should read it again. so i will.<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/02/ian-mcdonalds-brilli-1.html" title="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/02/ian-mcdonalds-brilli-1.html">http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/02/ian...</a><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Review: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/02/ian-mcdonalds-brilli-1.html">Cory Doctorow</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OOOh - sounds good]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book twice when I was a teenager. I don't remember what it was about really. I do remember that Joseph Stalin and Glen Miller were major characters, and it had a strange narrative structure that was somewhat challenging. The main thing I remember, was that the world it described seemed t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7642271">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is ....indescribable. I read it because my boyfriend read it years ago and said it was really entertaining. I suppose it was, but... there's just so many characters and strange tangents that it's difficult to follow at times, and even when you DO understand what's going on, it doesn't make...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19931350">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Entertaining series of vignettes centered around (but not restricted to) the titular town of Desolation Road, Mars.<br/><br/>It's not hard sci-fi, nor is it particularly deep and introspective. What it is is a fine collection of yarns and tall tales about the future that will entertain you for man...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67836000">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Marvelous. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just re-read.  Still absolutely stunning after all these years.]]></body>
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