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    <body><![CDATA[For once, I'm thankful that my imagination is not particularly visual—if it had been, I think I might well have found <em>Parable of the Sower</em> too difficult to read. Butler is unsparing in her creation of a dystopia which seems scarily possible; a world where global warming has devastated the planet, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62029349">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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