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    <body><![CDATA[This book is FanTasTic, and so fun to read.  It combines mind-bending, wacky ideas with neat characters in the setting of New York City in 2023.  There's some sci fi and some mystery and Lots of hilarity, I laughed out loud every 10 pages or so.  Included in this book are environmental warnings, con...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7268073">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my third book of a 12 month Book Circle.  Every month, a book arrives for me and I have to read and annotate it.  Inside are the names and annotations of everyone who has gotten it before me.<br/><br/>This book... honestly, it bugged the crap out of me.  From other reviews, I'm getting tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46939390">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[WTF.<br/><br/>That's pretty much the only way to describe this book.  I loved it, I don't really remember the entire plot even though I've read it at least 4 times, and I'm pretty sure the plot made sense when I read it.  What sticks with me are the vivid images in my head of certain scenes and mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62505698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If really mind-bending science fiction is the main course then this would be dessert. It's a meta-science-fiction mash-up which wins your heart with its witty, if unlikely plotline and hilarous characters.  A Gibson-esque omniscient supercomputer owned by a megacorporation wreaks havok on the world....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28026049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a hard time deciding how many stars to give this book. Overall, I thought the book was kind of stupid and ridiculous, but eventually it charmed me, and I ultimately ended up liking it. Everything about the story is overly complicated—plot, characters, and definitely the jokes. I think the be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25542577">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is now the second book by Matt Ruff I've read.  He has a gift for madcap chaos and incorporating literary and historical references in a way that is more amusing than exclusive.  Sewer, Gas and Electric is a crazy ride through an imagined future where mutant sharks roam the sewers of New York C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7073784">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like so many humor-based works, this came hot out of the chute funny as hell.  At some point the funny became the mildly amusing.  Eventually I stopped caring.  Oh sure, there were good bits strewn throughout, but in my opinion, it was downhill after the first couple chapters.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books of all-time.  Ruff is hilarious, smart, funny and historically/culturally aware of the past.  I'm afraid to say anything that would give this wild ride away, but if you haven't read it, pick it up!]]></body>
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