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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this.  <strong>The Postman</strong> was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula the same year as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Ender's Game" title=" Ender's Game"> Ender's Game</a>, which really isn't a fair competition.  Had this book come out in a different year, I think it would've won both.<br/><br/><strong>The Postman</strong> tells the story of Gordon, a loner trying to survive in p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2303424">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.  A timeless novel as urgently compelling as <em>War Day</em> or <em>Alas, Babylon,</em> David Brin's <em>The Postman</em> is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction.<p>He was a survivor--a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war.  Fate touches him one chill winter's day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold.  The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[What starts as a ploy to survive takes on a life of its own and propels Gordon into an epic quest to bring hope into a dying and cruel world.  The selfishness of the world is all that is left when everything else crumbles but Gordon is able to progress beyond mere survival and sacrifice his own desi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33602603">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.  A timeless novel as urgently compelling as <em>War Day</em> or <em>Alas, Babylon,</em> David Brin's <em>The Postman</em> is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction.<p>He was a survivor--a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war.  Fate touches him one chill winter's day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold.  The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Postman</em> is a perfect example of a great storyline with a great build-up that is then totally ruined by a deus ex machina resolution. It's as if the author were given a page count limit and then realized that he was about two dozen pages from that limit and said, &quot;Uh-oh, I'd better wrap this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16480816">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[To Brin's credit: this book moves along quickly, follows a nice formula, and goes roughly where you expect it to go with just enough twists to keep it engaging along the way.<br/><br/>That said, this is also an exemplar of a very average novel about a &quot;post-apocalyptic America&quot;.  It make...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2437438">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't let the movie version keep you away from this book.  Yes, the plot is very similar-- a wanderer in a post-apocalyptic America stumbles across a US Postal Service truck/uniform, and uses the uniform to bluff his way into communities by promissing that he is a representative of a newly formed US...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4133074">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A thoughtful take on a post-apocalyptic setting. There's a hard balance to strike in the subgenre; a lot of works suffer from either &quot;too close to be so different,&quot; or &quot;too far for so much to be the same.&quot; Either the big global disaster is in the recent past, in which case you sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73975443">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.  A timeless novel as urgently compelling as <em>War Day</em> or <em>Alas, Babylon,</em> David Brin's <em>The Postman</em> is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction.<p>He was a survivor--a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war.  Fate touches him one chill winter's day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold.  The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Given what I had heard of David Brin, I had very high expectations when I began The Postman. Consequently, I was sorely disappointed. This does not sound at all like the work of a major SF author. The writing has absolutely nothing exceptional, I cannot remember a single striking sentence, image ir ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69190118">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is what's going to happen to the world if we don't take over and another right wing nazi like Bush is elected president! Ok-- all seriousness aside-this is a doom-gloom-post nuclear world where a man is struggling to survive and in a twist of fate keeps hope alive. <br/><br/>Ok. I've finished...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12603394">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I first heard about The Postman over 10 years ago when a good friend briefly gave me an introduction to the plot of the book.  It was one of those books that had been in the back of my mind to read ever since but never quite made it to the top of the ever-growing reading list.  Recent reads of sever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41053665">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book turned out to be not exactly what I expected.  The first section is broadly similar to other post-nuclear war novels, as Gordon, the protagonist travels through the devastated Western US.  Gordon poses as a postal inspector from what he calls the &quot;Restored United States&quot; (a compl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50658341">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great post-apocalypse book, ignore the Kevin Costner movie... although I thought that was fun... it has very little to do with the book. <br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Forget the film: this book is much more interesting. It's set in a post-apocalyptic United States where all traces of civilization have been eradicated. A man stumbles upon a dead postman and takes his leather postman jacket and bag of letters (written shortly before the Fall). He discovers that som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55689814">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[never saw the movie - but I have a fascination for post-apocolylpitcal novels/films.  This had the potential - makes me think back fondly for when people really cared about the mail and letters - such a 20th century construct!  I always find it interesting when I feel nostalgic about older visions o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81741836">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.  A timeless novel as urgently compelling as <em>War Day</em> or <em>Alas, Babylon,</em> David Brin's <em>The Postman</em> is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction.<p>He was a survivor--a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war.  Fate touches him one chill winter's day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold.  The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is classic post-apocalyptic science fiction at its best.  The story is set in the U.S., the government and all infrastructure appear to have failed, and this is the story of one man who picks up a bag of mail found in the wreckage and sets the task of delivering it all to the recipients identif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70297201">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this, because nothing says warm and cozy like that post apocalypse feeling.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, I acually liked the movie...alot. One of my facorites, Throw all of the rotten fruit you want at that admission.<br/><br/>Aside from that, the book was pretty good, and totally different from the movie. I'd go so far as to say that anyone who absolutelty hated the movie but thought the setting...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78778635">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first three quarters of the book are extremely thought provoking, what if something even close to this could or would happen.  The reader is forced to imagine what the hard knock life would be like, could I as the reader do or survive in the environment depicted.  The last quarter the book loose...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74275166">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good, solid, post-apocalyptic science fiction. It was written in the 1980s, when this sub-genre became maybe a little too popular, possibly to the detriment of sci-fi as a whole. Set mainly in an Oregon reduced to isolated farming communities, the better first half follows the main character's journ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43679319">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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