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Hamish fischt im Trüben (Hamish Macbeth, #1)

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The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic

by Elizabeth Kolbert

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The author could imagine a future where people fuse their minds with each other, but not a future where women are anything but receptionists, secretaries, or housewives. Also, he felt the need to describe the tits of every female character, sometimes ...more
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Deducting a star for using dream sequences, which I loathe in any story. Other than that it was a fantastic book.
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