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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a treasure.  It drastically changed my worldview and made me come to see the urgency of some of the issues facing our generation.  One of Brin's concepts has actually become a major piece of my belief system.  Besides all of this serious stuff....this is a damn fun book to read that you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5718777">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am always hesitant to read Brin's 500+ page tomes.  After the frivolous, rambling Kiln People, I really wonder what happened to this physicist's brain. Anyway, Brin's 90's style internet optimism is  kind of charming, like a gohper server or a quaint, proprietary unix like A/UX.  <br/><br/>I'm n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69791373">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  David Brin is one of those hard Science Fiction writers who know the art of writing stories. He has characters that are flesh and blood; he gives good details of the scene before us without causing anemia in the telling. One irritation of many books, especially many found in the New York Times Bes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17578112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA['Earth' is a bit of a strange mixture: it is a considered ecosocial critique patched onto a not entirely serious B-movie disaster plot and terrible deus-ex-machina ending. Brin can certainly write, and 'Earth' is a great read (until the end), populated by many well-painted characters, from the major...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80581238">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite the many numerous poor reviews, I found this to be quite an enjoyable novel and, at the very least, gave me plenty  of things to consider in my own view of my place in the grand scheme of things.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book took forever to finish.  I kept starting it and putting it down, and having to start over again when I discovered it months later.  I got it as a gift my sophomore year of high school and finally forced myself to read it after I graduated.  (And that was only because it's the only book I b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45396136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The hook here is the black hole that has escaped and is sinking into the core of the planet (how do we get rid of it). But the side stories are the real fun. The arcs that have been created to preserve the wildlife of Africa, and wherever. The American ghetto kids who find themselves in really bad p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69461167">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First, David Brin is a great ideas author but has a horrible trait of being unable to end a book well. I've read many of his books and they all have great ideas and well-realized worlds and then at some point he realizes that he actually has to END the book and throws something together; <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Postman" title=" The Postman"> The Postman</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36648510">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just awful.  I loved Brin's first three &quot;Uplift&quot; books (Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War), thought the next three in that series (the &quot;Jijo&quot; books) were ok, and liked &quot;The Postman,&quot; but &quot;Earth&quot; is so bad on so many levels I'm surprised I finished ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10766376">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just reread this as an exercise in revisiting books I loved when I was younger. Earth didn't really hold up. It was fun to read, but Brin has a problem with exclamation marks. He uses so many of them that it causes you to want to ex them out with a little red pen and go around showing people (who ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1397687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Neat premise, good ideas, terrible execution. I couldn't get past the unbelievable and uninteresting characters. I appreciate the intent, but just couldn't... slogged for 450 pages and gave it up for Arthur C. Clarke's 2010 and The Incendiary by Jessica Warner.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I won't really review this one because it's been about 18 years since I read it.  However, I will say that it was a very interesting and gripping read.  It falls into a category of it's own really.  The best description I would give it is &quot;eco-scifi&quot;.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A science fiction book set on Earth just as global warming gets out of control, resources start running out, etc.  Lots of interesting ideas.  Also it was written just as the internet was taking off, so his predictions for that are interesting to read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember I really liked this book.  I've been waiting to read it again, it's probably been 10 years or so.  I remember when I finished how much my mindset had changed on environmental issues.  Good thing I have a short memory.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished re-reading this book for the second or third time. What I find fascinating about this book is that it was written in the early '90s and so many of the activities or ideas in the book are already coming true. I honestly had to keep looking back to check the print date, because it felt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29074475">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Arg! I don't care about any of these people. Also, casual misogyny for the lose. You try to tell me this is a future on limited resources, but she has plants <em>watered</em>?! And orange juice from Oregon brought to her in Texas?! Give me a break.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kind of like John Brunner's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Stand on Zanzibar" title=" Stand on Zanzibar"> Stand on Zanzibar</a> in style, tone, and general dystopian message, but updated by 20 years.    Also not as good, in my opinion, but still an enjoyable read. <br/><br/>I'd call it cultural speculative fiction with a strong grounding in hard SF. The world has already gone ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35497845">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in highschool or soon after. I hope it was as good as i remeber. Being set on Earth, as the title implies, it allowed Brin a venue to prognosticate on the near future instead of the distant future or distant galaxies like all the Uplift stuff. I credit this book with getting me intereste...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8212861">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good story of mankind trying to save itself from itslef. Interesting characters that you get to learn about slowly as the story progresses. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like the vignettes about the ecological problems but I just couldn't stay interested in the main story about the black hole in the Earth's core. It just seemed to move alond so slowly. ]]></body>
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