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Title: Yeah Dan Simmons rocks
Review: Dan Simmons manages to take the tourist fears of third world countries and make them palatable enough that you not only sympathize with these people, you never want to travel to the places that they travel.This book is a rich textured trip into hell-on-earth as the poverty and decay slowly overwhelm the narrator and his wife. The caste system, drug dealers and apologists all work together to create an eerie hopeless desperation that the main character can only deny by the barest shred of rationalization.I am only giving this book 4 stars because the ending is stupid (it's an urban legend for chrissakes) but the trip there is just too horrifying to believe.
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