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    <![CDATA[Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy]]>
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    <![CDATA[Sewer, Gas &amp; Electric is the exuberant follow-up to Matt Ruff's cult classic and critically acclaimed debut Fool on the Hill.  High above Manhattan android and human steelworkers are constructing a new Tower of Babel for billionaire Harry Gant, as a monument to humanity's power to dream. In the festering sewers below a darker game is afoot: a Wall Street takeover artist has been murdered, and Gant's crusading ex-wife, Joan Fine, has been hired to find out why. The year is 2023, and Ayn Rand has been resurrected and bottled in a hurricane lamp to serve as Joan's assistant; an eco-terrorist named Philo Dufrense travels in a pink-and-green submarine designed by Howard Hughes; a Volkswagen Beetle is possessed by the spirit of Abbie Hoffman; Meisterbrau, a mutant great white shark, is running loose in the sewers beneath Times Square; and a one-armed 181-year-old Civil War veteran joins Joan and Ayn in their quest for the truth. All of whom, and many more besides, are caught up in a vast conspiracy involving Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, and a mob of homicidal robots.]]>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a hard time deciding how many stars to give this book. Overall, I thought the book was kind of stupid and ridiculous, but eventually it charmed me, and I ultimately ended up liking it. Everything about the story is overly complicated—plot, characters, and definitely the jokes. I think the be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25542577">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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