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Title: (Almost) The Greatest Book I've Ever Read
Review: "Science Fiction's Supreme Masterpiece" adorns the cover of this edition, and it deserves it, ...kinda.I've tried many times to read this over the years, but could never get past the first few pages. You are bombarded with so many weird names of things that it's easy to get overloaded, and put it down. But this time, I decided to power through that first chapter, and shortly thereafter I was hooked. I've never read such a good blend of story, science, and philosophy. With characters so layered, and plots so intertwined, it was seriously one of the best books I've ever read. But it didn't live up to itself. It felt like the author spent decades composing the first half of the book, making it perfect, and then rushed the last half to meet a deadline in a few months. I may not read it cover to cover again, but I will probably read the first part many times, and be quoting passages from it like sacred text.
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