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    <![CDATA[A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters]]>
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    <![CDATA[This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried.  I really tried to like this book.  But it went from a 3/4 to a 1 star by the end.  <br/><br/>I liked the first story about a stowaway on Noah's ark.  And there was a lovely story about &quot;The Shipwreck&quot; a painting which my edition has a nice fold out of so you can look and see wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24623250">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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