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"I think this book just came to me at the right time. The narrative voice in the book is unique, told with this omniscient storyteller perspective. It's hard to pull that kind of grandiosity off, but Vásquez is making it work." — Feb 12, 2012 05:49am
"I think this book just came to me at the right time. The narrative voice in the book is unique, told with this omniscient storyteller perspective. It's hard to pull that kind of grandiosity off, but Vásquez is making it work." — Feb 12, 2012 05:49am
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"I really like how the author is pulling from so many source materials - it provides so much more context than other histories I have read on subject."
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"The term of 'moral maturation' is new to me, but the concept is not - morality shifting to encompass care for the earth, nature, and animals as a moral obligation. Author quotes Darwin's _Descent of Man_ where he wrestled with some of the same questions and concluded that the day may come when sensitivities were broadened to include these 'beings'."
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