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Title: Gut-Punched
Review: This book demands much of, and tantalizingly, obliquely vouchsafes much to, the reader. Its decayed futuristic pidgin English, filled with the author's puns, demands constant alertness. Its semi-opaque references to the old (present) times, with the old lost technological superiority, intrigue the puzzling-out reader. The author's skill in weaving together such disparate threads as an old saint's legend, an Iron Age post-apocalyptic future, and a coming-of-age-tale inspire awe and fascination. I was hypnotized from first word to last. The best book I've read in 2008 thus far, and one of the books that will forever be a part of me.
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