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  <title>The World Without Us</title>
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 14 11:41:34 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[i kind of found alan weisman to be not that great of a writer, but still managed to never really want to put this book down. What does that mean? I guess what i feel upon completion is that there were interesting ideas peppered throughout, and that though i enjoyed the imaginative spirit of trying to imagine a post-human world, i sort of felt like all of the interviews and viewpoints from everyone never went anywhere. I particularly was annoyed by his ongoing references to what would come of humanities great art and culture. that said, if i came away with anything from this book, it is a new found obsession with the idea of elephants getting introduced into north america. that would rule.]]></body>
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