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  <title><![CDATA[&quot;A&quot; Is for Ox: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age]]></title>
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  <default-description>The failure of increasing numbers of young people to attain even minimum levels of literacy signals a catastrophe at the deepest levels of our culture. A Is for Ox is an important and impassioned work that both proves this conclusion and suggests what can be done to change it.</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for a anthropology class in college.  It has some good insight into literate vs. non-literate cultures that I thought were interesting. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Given to me by my father.  Comparison of cultures that are literate and not.  Very interesting approach on history passed down orally vs written. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book. It made me want to take my house video game free and it inspired me to start talking about the violence that my kids are exposed to via &quot;Fantasy/fairytale&quot; type movies. I think the author does a good job at balancing statistics with real life. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I only read a few chapters of this book.  It's about the relationship between orality and literacy, and the importance of literacy to the development of the brain in today's societies.  While I enjoyed the writing style in some ways, in other ways it was frustrating.  It was like a bad textbook, pac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14265384">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to read this for school, and, while interesting, the author has an overly utopian view of how to change the world.  ]]></body>
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