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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Descent |
 | | Those at peace with their unspoiled, primitive side are good (i.e., Native Americans, aborigines, minorities, and so forth), and those of us who are not the chosen ones are bad (business, the military, Christians, organized religion, etc.). |
 | | If "The Descent" was 150 pages shorter, more tightly edited, and had stayed on point with its original premise, it could have been one of the finest fiction works of this generation. |
 | | Long jumps around in his novel, trying to tackle so many different subjects (linguistics, geology, evolutionary theory) that it's like he's showing off how smart he is. These insights are hardly profound, but are there more to make the novel "seem" more epic. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/051513175X?v=glance (2137 words) |
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