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1. Randy Stafford 12.17.10 / 5pm
   

   Nice review.

   I just wrote one on this book for Amazon.

   These post-apocalypse books seem to have three purposes: cautionary warnings, utopian resets after wiping out our world, and understanding our world by fictionally dissecting its corpse. Pendell seems mostly in the first two camps.

   After I do my Amazon reviews, I usually read other reviews. I think you and I both missed that this book’s first page of text is 20,000 years after the collapse and hints at some sort of hippie, alternate science civilization. So, contrary to my review, it seems that Pendell did sort of go for a Canticle for Leibowitz cyclical history.

   Anyway, I bookmarked your site. It looks to have a nice mix of reviewing old and new stuff.
2. Omphalos 12.17.10 / 8pm
   

   Thank you. i liked your review too. Here’s a link for those interested:

   http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3IOHXS2GQ4QY6/ref=cm_pdp_rev_title_1?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview#R1PYPZBPE96U20

   I did see that first page, where Pendell was talking about the cemetary. Is that the one you were talking about? Seemed more like philosophy to me than science though.

   I think the best thing I can say about this book is that it was unique.
3. Randy Stafford 12.21.10 / 8pm
   

   Yes, I agree that the opening page of text in the book seems more about some New Agey philosophy than an actual technology that works as well as the “pre-cle” stuff did.
4. Omphalos 12.22.10 / 8pm
   

   Do you have a web site, Randy, or is all your stuff on Amazon?

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