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    <body><![CDATA[A Dutch captain discovers giant talking newts on a remote island and teaches them to use tools, fight off predators, and collect pearls for him. They are eventually exploited by international corporations and the newts challenge man's place at the top of the animal kingdom.<br/><br/>Capek covers a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12498016">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most enjoyable books I ever read, and definetely only one distopia I really ever liked. <br/><br/>Main concept of this book was repeated many many times after, for example in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17214.Starship_Troopers" title="Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein">Starship Troopers</a>.  Goverment finds a public enemy, moves it ahead, unleashes society and mass-media on it, even...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72209088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A brilliant book.  This book is one of the high peaks between Swift and Twain and later broad scale social critics in fiction such as Kurt Vonnegut.  Published in 1936 it takes it chops up a broad sample of contemporary politics, culture and values.  Most of what it has to say about mankind and its ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18650592">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Synopsis: Kapek wrote in the post-WW1 era.  In the book, a sea captain finds a bay that harbors giant newts, about the size of a ten year old human, complete with digits and all.  The newts are intelligent, and he trains them to capture pearls for him.  Eventually, a company forms that sends the New...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/653230">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This silly little novel is blessed with the honest freshness of demonstrating a style that has, since its publication, become stale beyond belief.  Such tried modern-posty elements as self-reference, dsigustingly disguised personal allegory and a surfeit of bad gags (at least in the English translat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40601608">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think I can explain this book very well but I will try. It's about a species of intelligent newts that are discovered in the pacific ocean. These newts can walk on two legs and are about four feet tall. After being discovered, they are used in industrial projects around the world, building p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32579152">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yet another book read for the dystopian science fiction book club. This delightful book was written in the 1930's and tells of the discovery of a population of newts who, in addition to being much taller and dexterous than your average variety, are also capable of being taught speech and mechanics. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50832835">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book with nothing to dislike in it.  It reminded me of 'Mars Attacks!' with its portrait of human hubris and ineptitude.  And of Kosinski's 'Being There' with its portrait of human desire to throw paint wildly at a blank canvas.  And of 'Gremlins 2' because that movie rules and so does this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23876713">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this story...as true now as it was in early 20th century. It is about so much, but mostly about treating those who are deemed inferior as something less than human, which proves to be a fatal mistake, even when the creature is not human]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this hypothetical history an old captain discovers an intelligent species of newts in Malaysia. This new species soon  develops from a handy animal to a world wonder, and in rapid succesions to a slave, an immigrant, a second rate civilian into a world threat. And the strange thing is, it is all ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7716376">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was really an amazing book. I'm not giving it a high score for brilliant writing (although this translation was excellent and the story just whipped along) or for the subtlety of the satire (it's pretty hard to miss the point) but rather for the way Capek was able to put it all together ... it'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59526964">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard to imagine a book more bizarre than this one.  Who could have imagined that in the mid-1930s someone would picture a world where a new, rapidly reproducing species of large oceanic newts comes into competition with humans--with said competition provoking the humans to attempt to incarcerate the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39476541">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book stands up well to the test of time. It provides an interesting snapshot of the world before one of its worst wars in history, and as a result I found some parts to be particularly chilling.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a wonderfully fun read and a great skewering of a society and media so bored with itself that it practically welcomes an invasion of slippery newts]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Between the two World Wars, Čapek wrote a biting satire about modern government and society.  Told in a series of vignettes, Čapek takes on racism, colonialism, nationalism, capitalism…Unfortunately, there’s no real plot, every one of the characters are loathsome, and the scenario is so disgus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70705417">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a 1930's European sci-fi book/mocumentary, and that says it all. The style brought me back to things I used to read 15 and 20 years ago, and was a welcomed burst of nostalgia. <br/>Most of the book is not written as prose per se, but more as a historic account through snippets of conversati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21727196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jeg leste den norske utgaven fra &quot;Århundrets bibliotek&quot;. I sannhet en merkelig bok. Som alltid: en klassiker skuffer ikke.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent condemnation of the human race. It covers it all: hubris, greed, and ignorance. A brilliant satire.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[They don't seem to have the paperback book version listed, so this is the closest I could come up with.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating book. The point of view jumps around quite a bit. The middle of the book reads like a scrapbook, and is full of footnotes. The end is a bit of a cop-out. But much of the book is still oddly relevant (there's a scene towards the end that is strongly reminiscent of Hurricane Katrina). ]]></body>
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