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    <![CDATA[The World Without Us]]>
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    <![CDATA[Most contemporary books about the environment end up being jeremiads. They may sing the praises of the natural world, but mostly to draw attention to the ways we are destroying it. The goal is to inspire social change, but that does not always result in creative or compelling prose. How do you avoid putting readers to sleep with yet another alarming tale when you're dealing with a subject that truly is alarming? One of the many virtues of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Alan Weisman" title="Alan Weisman">Alan Weisman</a>'s <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The World Without Us" title="The World Without Us">The World Without Us</a> is that it finds a brilliantly creative solution to this problem.]]>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I saw this title first offered by one of my book clubs, I decided to pass.  Do I really need to be further depressed by being reminded of how much we've damaged the earth?  I read a few reviews of it, was intrigued and decided to give it a try.  This is not a feel-good book, not by a long shot,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12371753">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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