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  <title><![CDATA[The Snow (Gollancz)]]></title>
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  <default_description>And this is how the world will end ... 'The snow started falling on the sixth of September, soft noiseless flakes filling the sky like a swarm of white moths, or like static interference on your TV screen - whichever metaphor, nature or technology, you find the more evocative. Snow everywhere, all through the air, with that distinctive sense of hurrying that a vigorous snowfall brings with it. Everything in a rush, busy-busy snowflakes. And, simultaneously, paradoxically, everything is hushed, calm, as quiet as cancer, as white as death. And at the beginning people were happy.' But the snow doesn't stop. It falls and falls and falls. Until it lies three miles thick across the whole of the earth. Six billion people have died. Perhaps 150,000 survive. But those 150,000 need help, they need support, they need organising, governing. And so the lies begin. Lies about how the snow started. Lies about who is to blame. Lies about who is left. Lies about what really lies beneath.</default_description>
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  <original_title>The Snow (Gollancz)</original_title>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Adam Roberts' books. The premises are fascinating, the stories are compelling and I do very much enjoy Roberts' writing style. Unfortunately, none of the works I've read so far contain a single likeable character, major or minor.<br/><br/>His character...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37222273">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Aliens did it. Absolute fucking tosh. I liked the theory of the 'super string' thingys that pumped snow out by accident. Fucking aliens, what a cop o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71662283">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great high concept, meh execution. Judging by Gradisil, he got better at the execution part.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The premise of this book is great, and the beginning had me really hooked but then it seemed to lose it's way horribly.  The story fizzled out and was quite unsatisfactory in the end (but I kept on going hoping it would improve), and also the characters were unsympathetic and one-dimensional, and I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32338142">more...</a>]]></body>
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