Not exhaustive, but a few books that have lodged in my brain in the last few months...
Non-Fiction
"The Beautiful Struggle" by Te-Nehesi Coates is on my short list for books you have to read. I didn't know who Te-Nehesi was, ended up being introduced to him for a moment at the Aspen Ideas Festival and saw his book a few hours later in the on-campus book shop. I read the back cover and decided to pick it up, not sure when I'd get to it. Last week I had a cross country plane flight and ended up finishing the book. There were a few times that I was completely choked up, stopped to reread sections just to stare in wonder at what some kids have had to go through growing up, happened upon whole sections that seemed to have been written about my own childhood, realized (again) what a blessed life I had lived. I laughed, smiled, and dog-eared pages that were too beautifully written not to re-read to my wife when I landed (even if it meant waking her up). Coates tells the story of his coming of age in inner city Baltimore with an ex-black panther father/vegetarian/publisher, a flock of siblings across four mothers, a passion for comics and sword play, and a wealth of African American history.
"The Telltale Brain" by V Ramachandran is a fascinating walk through a scientist's thinking. V explains some of the most elegant experiments and some of the most cutting edge thinking about the brain. He is credited with performing the first amputation of a phantom limb and that story alone is worth the price of admission. If you're interested at all in the way our brain sees, in the way our brain works, or at least in what we think we know and how the scientific method works, read this book.
Fiction
"Who Fears Death?" by Nnedi Okorafor is a fantasy of genocide, power, myth, & sorcery set in an alternative post-apocalyptic Africa. It grabs you from the first page and weaves a stark, beautiful story. Definitely worth reading and watching for her next novel.
"EmbassyTown" is classic China Mieville. Read it. It takes on the basic idea of xenolinguistics with a culture that is truly alien. It poses the question of whether language itself, in all the ways that we understand it and live it everyday, is a rare innovation. Whether metaphor and simile are givens in a language, and what happens when we meet a truly alien intelligence. Easily one of the best science fiction novels I've read this year.
"The Magician King" by Lev Grossman is a return to the world he introduced to us in his first novel. Same cast of characters, new adventure. Something about both books strikes me as derivative. I don't mean that in a particularly bad way, just that I felt like I had read it all before. Cotton candy. Well written.
"The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi is the first glimpse of a new mind in science fiction. It's a classic space opera with enough ideas per page to make even the most battle weary reader sit up and take notice. My favorite? A privacy "sense." Gold.
"2030" is a dystopian take on the future by first time novelist but well known actor/director/writer Albert Brooks. If you like that sorta thing it's fun. Not particularly shocking since most of what he predicts sounds pretty much like what will actually happen. Earthquake, young revolt against old, china owns part of US, first Jewish president, you know the drill. Not bad.
"Rule 34" by Charles Stross is not for the faint of heart. Rule 34 is the Internet meme that states that any topic can be turned into porn by someone. At face value the book is a murder mystery procedural that gives Stross a chance to explore the near future world where printing things is as cheap as printing paper and the ramifications for "Rule 34" that result. Read it if you can take it.
"Hull Zero Three" by Greg Bear is your classic amnesiac wakes up to explore big dumb object story of a generation ship gone bad. I like Greg Bear's work so am inclined to give it a good grade. Though it didn't stick with me quite like some of his past work. Cotton Candy.
"7th Sigma" by Stephen Gould is a fun coming of age story of a kid with special talents in the metal free (because of some sort of swarming, evolving, metal eating outbreak) south west. Fun. Not particularly deep or meaningful or extremely well written but a welcome distraction.
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
Books and Such... May 2010
Ok, I've actually forgotten a bunch of the books that I've read since last we met. So I'll try to recreate at least my thoughts on the few I can remember (I need to write things down sooner).
"Under Heaven" by Guy Gavriel Kay is a rich, deep, quiet meditation on family, war, civilization, and political intrigue. All set in the times of the Tang dynasty in China. It begins with a man who is spending his year of mourning (for his father who was a great general) burying the bones of the dead along the silent shores of a high mountain lake, fighting off the ghosts of the warriors who died in battle. You don't quite know where the story is going until suddenly you are in the middle of epic changes. Guy knows how to tell a story and uses historic details to deepen the tale. Read everything he writes and you won't be disappointed. This is his newest edition and it is spellbinding.
"The Last Light of the Sun" by Guy Gavriel Kay is similar in that it deals in family and myth, but this time it is in the time of Vikings and the early northern European lands. A story of magic and empire building.
"The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi is set in a plausible future land of world-wide floods, genetic crop manipulations, Japanese bio-engineered "windup girls" and an economy where calories are king. I don't think it is quite as good as it thinks it is, repeating words and thoughts a bit too much for my taste, but it signals a writer to watch. If you like near-future fiction, crazed Bangkok streets, and mammoths as engines, you'll enjoy it.
"Black Hills" by Dan Simmons, is a history chasing, heart-breaking, must read. He takes the moment of General Custer's death as a starting point and doesn't end until the world is transformed by a President named Franklin D. Roosevelt. Seen by a Native American child who grows old with the ghost of Custer (among others) looking out of his eyes.
"Horns" by Joe Hill. It’s a playful story about a guy who loses his girlfriend (maybe kills her) and wakes up to discover that he’s got horns coming out of his head and seems to be a bit more devilish than usual. People also can’t seem to notice or remember he has them and everyone tells him their worst thoughts. A journey of discovery ensues. A diversion.
"One Amazing Thing" by Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni is set in the basement office of a building that has just suffered an earthquake. The players were all there to sort out their travel paperwork and come from many different walks of life. As the water rises and hope fails, they each tell a story of one amazing thing that happened in their life. This was a short, simple book. Nicely done.
"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet" by David Mitchell. I've read other books by David Mitchell and enjoyed them so I thought I'd give this a try. I think it may be his best work. It is set on an island off of Japan during the period where the Dutch were the only foreigners allowed even close to the country. Jacob is a young book keeper charged with documenting corruption at the trading post. But that is just an entry into the closed world and strange kingdom of Japan. The book covers lifetime of intrigues, possible child sacrifices, immortal samurais, and loves lost.
"The Girl Who..." For a long time I resisted this series because it seemed to be everywhere and a bit over-hyped. A friend passed her copy of the first book (Dragon Tattoo) on to me recently and I just finished it. It’s worth the read. The hype is mostly right. This is just plain murder mystery family dynasty journalistic detective work fun.
I just finished the other two in the series and they are equally good (though you get the impression that women have a particularly bad time of things in Sweden than I would have imagined). The ending is bang up good fun. Read all three. Now, of course, I'm in trouble (because the books were all published posthumously and aside from outlines for more they’re all he wrote). So uh, now what?
"The Kingdom Beyond the Waves" by Stephen Hunt is just plain good Victorian-punk alternate world, evil empire, partly underwater, partly far up in the sky, fun. This is the second book in the series (the first being "The Court of the Air.") A nice diversion.
"Under Heaven" by Guy Gavriel Kay is a rich, deep, quiet meditation on family, war, civilization, and political intrigue. All set in the times of the Tang dynasty in China. It begins with a man who is spending his year of mourning (for his father who was a great general) burying the bones of the dead along the silent shores of a high mountain lake, fighting off the ghosts of the warriors who died in battle. You don't quite know where the story is going until suddenly you are in the middle of epic changes. Guy knows how to tell a story and uses historic details to deepen the tale. Read everything he writes and you won't be disappointed. This is his newest edition and it is spellbinding.
"The Last Light of the Sun" by Guy Gavriel Kay is similar in that it deals in family and myth, but this time it is in the time of Vikings and the early northern European lands. A story of magic and empire building.
"The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi is set in a plausible future land of world-wide floods, genetic crop manipulations, Japanese bio-engineered "windup girls" and an economy where calories are king. I don't think it is quite as good as it thinks it is, repeating words and thoughts a bit too much for my taste, but it signals a writer to watch. If you like near-future fiction, crazed Bangkok streets, and mammoths as engines, you'll enjoy it.
"Black Hills" by Dan Simmons, is a history chasing, heart-breaking, must read. He takes the moment of General Custer's death as a starting point and doesn't end until the world is transformed by a President named Franklin D. Roosevelt. Seen by a Native American child who grows old with the ghost of Custer (among others) looking out of his eyes.
"Horns" by Joe Hill. It’s a playful story about a guy who loses his girlfriend (maybe kills her) and wakes up to discover that he’s got horns coming out of his head and seems to be a bit more devilish than usual. People also can’t seem to notice or remember he has them and everyone tells him their worst thoughts. A journey of discovery ensues. A diversion.
"One Amazing Thing" by Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni is set in the basement office of a building that has just suffered an earthquake. The players were all there to sort out their travel paperwork and come from many different walks of life. As the water rises and hope fails, they each tell a story of one amazing thing that happened in their life. This was a short, simple book. Nicely done.
"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet" by David Mitchell. I've read other books by David Mitchell and enjoyed them so I thought I'd give this a try. I think it may be his best work. It is set on an island off of Japan during the period where the Dutch were the only foreigners allowed even close to the country. Jacob is a young book keeper charged with documenting corruption at the trading post. But that is just an entry into the closed world and strange kingdom of Japan. The book covers lifetime of intrigues, possible child sacrifices, immortal samurais, and loves lost.
"The Girl Who..." For a long time I resisted this series because it seemed to be everywhere and a bit over-hyped. A friend passed her copy of the first book (Dragon Tattoo) on to me recently and I just finished it. It’s worth the read. The hype is mostly right. This is just plain murder mystery family dynasty journalistic detective work fun.
I just finished the other two in the series and they are equally good (though you get the impression that women have a particularly bad time of things in Sweden than I would have imagined). The ending is bang up good fun. Read all three. Now, of course, I'm in trouble (because the books were all published posthumously and aside from outlines for more they’re all he wrote). So uh, now what?
"The Kingdom Beyond the Waves" by Stephen Hunt is just plain good Victorian-punk alternate world, evil empire, partly underwater, partly far up in the sky, fun. This is the second book in the series (the first being "The Court of the Air.") A nice diversion.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Books, February 2010
Ok, I've got a few books to get through (and a few more that I'll have to post later)
We'll start with Fiction...
"Juliet, Naked" by Nick Hornby is a quick little shot at exploring wasted time, reclusive rock stars, fanatic internet conspiracy theorists followers, and the search for meaning among the aftermath of alcohol infused bed hopping. Classic and very readable Hornby of "High Fidelity" fame.
"The Way of Shadows" by Brent Weeks is book one of a trilogy (the others are: "Shadow's Edge" and cleverly enough, "Beyond the Shadows"). I rarely like fantasy books, but I have to give Mr. Weeks credit, these books are unputdownable and completely diverting. If you'd like to read a dark and brooding adventure in a land where assassins are king, blades speak, battles rage and ancient mysteries slowly unravel, get the trilogy.
"The Sheriff of Yrnameer" by Michael Rubens was a cute (he's a writer for the Daily Show) experiment in sci-fi storytelling. About a future time when Earth is pretty much blown to bits and rogue spacers roam the galaxy. If you want to read a light and playful little romp, go for it, just know I bought it for the cover illustration and am proud to say that I'll keep it for the cover illustration.
"Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami is considered a classic. He's a good writer and this was a very readable and absorbing exploration of Japanese culture and a bit of magical realism.
"Wireless" by Charles Stross was a collection of short stories that were pretty uneven but certainly engaging and exploratory. Nowhere near as good as his novels but I could see how one or two of these stories could easily become a major new work. I think it'd be worth reading to see how his mind works as it crunches through thoughts and dreams and ideas on the way to becoming stories.
"Huge" by James Fuerst is about a little kid that is the reincarnation of Mickey Spillane. Totally a fun book about growing up (a little) and solving mysteries (or at least thinking you're solving mysteries).
"Transition" by Ian Banks looks like a new universe in the making. Typical Banks malevolent and dark humor peppered throughout a story about alternate universes and the enforcement officers who live across worlds holding back catastrophic badness. Love it.
"The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown is another one by Dan Brown. Do I have to say more? Think of it as cotton candy. This time instead of the church he takes on the founding fathers. A good read if you like the same story told over and over again (though it gets a bit strained and was certainly not as good as The DaVinci Code).
"This is Not a Game" by Walter Jon Williams wasn't as good as other musings on the topic (or other Williams books) but it does paint a credible future world and plays with the potential of crowdsourced augmented reality good guys, bad guys, and game designers. Worth reading if you like that sort of thing.
If you like the smell of paint, walking along the Seine and a touch of impressionist mystery, read The Swan Thieves Though not The Historian in terms of scope or vampire fun, she can definitely write. The book explores what it means and meant to be an artist both today and in the early 1900s. It also paints the picture of a man who is single mindedly obsessed and the doctor detective trying to discover the meaning of his patient's paintings. My only reservation is that there isn't much mystery and I was waiting for some kind of twist or turn that never really came (or if it did it was so predictable that I didn't notice).
"Mariposa" by Greg Bear was worth reading if you like slightly futuristic thrillers about insolvent America, overeaching corporations as military replacements, and a sprinkling of smart dust.
"The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers" by Thomas Mullen is pure gold. It is set in the 1930's in the midwest during a time of fast cars, bank robbers, and the newly emerging FBI. The story revolves around the oddly magical ability of two swashbuckling brothers to evade (mostly) death while they try to stay one step ahead of the law and maybe a half a step away from the breadlines.
"Six Suspects" by Vikas Swarup (author of the book that was made into the Slumdog Millionaire movie) is ok, but not great. Basically it starts with the murder of a playboy millionaire spoiled brat and then explores the six people who were all at the party who may have reason to kill him. It isn't a bad conceit but it didn't really feel like there was much mystery or tension.
"Galileo's Dream" wasn’t bad, a mish mash of history (pretty vivid depiction of Galileo’s place and time) and world spanning future hopping many dimensional time traveling trouble making. Kinda confused and anticlimactic but Kim Stanley Robinson is always a good writer and this might have just been a bit of the “reach exceeds grasp” sorta experiment that all good authors have to try. If you like history and sci-fi and ruminations on the nature of human nature, you’ll probably enjoy it. If you want something much deeper in the “history of scientific thinking with a touch of swashbuckling adventure genre” and something that is a bit more finely wrought (though wacky at times because of the author’s playful anachronisms), read the The Baroque Cycle.
If you’ve never read Jess Walters, now would be a good time to start. His new book, The Financial Lives of the Poets is a compact little story about one man’s descent into hell during the financial meltdown. It is funny, sad and hopeful.
Non-Fiction
"A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" by Donald Miller is a short exploration of the elements of a good story and how you can think about your life as a story (and how to edit it along the way to guide it to be a better one). There is one particular story about a family who, among other things, decides to invite world leaders over to their house for a sleepover and the richness that springs from that one inciting incident (oh yeah, a good story has a character who wants something (even better if its something good for his life, his family, his community, or the world) and has to overcome obstacles (if you don't fail you aren't really aiming high enough and the best characters know there will be stumbles and falls along the way) to get it, but usually the character is comfortable and like most of us does not want to rock the boat... (so they need an inciting incident to get them moving). Read the book.
"Whatever it Takes" by Paul Tough is a book about Geoffrey Canada's efforts to build the Harlem Children's Zone. If you care at all about education read this book. If you like reading about doing the impossible, read this book. It has heartbreaking passages and inspirational ideas. I saw Geoffrey speak not that long ago and was pleasantly shocked by some of the things he said.
While we don’t burn scientists at the stake quite as often anymore there still is a surplus of Denialism. This book is an interesting screed on the widespread distrust of science and fact. It’s not a perfect book and seems a bit too arrogant at times (the people who should read it would never get past the first chapter), but overall it has some startling and disturbing examples of denial in the face of overwhelming evidence. While finding the link for this book I found another book about truthiness that sounds intriguing. True Enough.
"Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea" by Gary Kinder is the true story of the recovery of a ship filled with gold and other historic artifacts dating back to the American gold rush. Great story of the perils of going to sea, the origins of the gold rush, the amazing efforts of one man and his team to establish a working scientific presence 8-10,000 feet below the surface of the ocean, and the ensuing legal wrangling that followed when they discovered the most gold ever found in a shipwreck. A completely wonderful adventure even more fun because it really happened. One of the best elements of the book (and really the core of the story) is the main character. Tommy (Harvey) Thompson is a template for the idea of creativity, invention, perseverance, and the scientific method. This is a story about doing what all the experts thought was impossible. A must read.
Movies...
"ZombieLand" rocks.
Music...
Massive Attack's new album is deep and wonderful. Buy Heligoland now.
We'll start with Fiction...
"Juliet, Naked" by Nick Hornby is a quick little shot at exploring wasted time, reclusive rock stars, fanatic internet conspiracy theorists followers, and the search for meaning among the aftermath of alcohol infused bed hopping. Classic and very readable Hornby of "High Fidelity" fame.
"The Way of Shadows" by Brent Weeks is book one of a trilogy (the others are: "Shadow's Edge" and cleverly enough, "Beyond the Shadows"). I rarely like fantasy books, but I have to give Mr. Weeks credit, these books are unputdownable and completely diverting. If you'd like to read a dark and brooding adventure in a land where assassins are king, blades speak, battles rage and ancient mysteries slowly unravel, get the trilogy.
"The Sheriff of Yrnameer" by Michael Rubens was a cute (he's a writer for the Daily Show) experiment in sci-fi storytelling. About a future time when Earth is pretty much blown to bits and rogue spacers roam the galaxy. If you want to read a light and playful little romp, go for it, just know I bought it for the cover illustration and am proud to say that I'll keep it for the cover illustration.
"Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami is considered a classic. He's a good writer and this was a very readable and absorbing exploration of Japanese culture and a bit of magical realism.
"Wireless" by Charles Stross was a collection of short stories that were pretty uneven but certainly engaging and exploratory. Nowhere near as good as his novels but I could see how one or two of these stories could easily become a major new work. I think it'd be worth reading to see how his mind works as it crunches through thoughts and dreams and ideas on the way to becoming stories.
"Huge" by James Fuerst is about a little kid that is the reincarnation of Mickey Spillane. Totally a fun book about growing up (a little) and solving mysteries (or at least thinking you're solving mysteries).
"Transition" by Ian Banks looks like a new universe in the making. Typical Banks malevolent and dark humor peppered throughout a story about alternate universes and the enforcement officers who live across worlds holding back catastrophic badness. Love it.
"The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown is another one by Dan Brown. Do I have to say more? Think of it as cotton candy. This time instead of the church he takes on the founding fathers. A good read if you like the same story told over and over again (though it gets a bit strained and was certainly not as good as The DaVinci Code).
"This is Not a Game" by Walter Jon Williams wasn't as good as other musings on the topic (or other Williams books) but it does paint a credible future world and plays with the potential of crowdsourced augmented reality good guys, bad guys, and game designers. Worth reading if you like that sort of thing.
If you like the smell of paint, walking along the Seine and a touch of impressionist mystery, read The Swan Thieves Though not The Historian in terms of scope or vampire fun, she can definitely write. The book explores what it means and meant to be an artist both today and in the early 1900s. It also paints the picture of a man who is single mindedly obsessed and the doctor detective trying to discover the meaning of his patient's paintings. My only reservation is that there isn't much mystery and I was waiting for some kind of twist or turn that never really came (or if it did it was so predictable that I didn't notice).
I’m afraid I wasn’t all that wrapped up in Let The Great World Spin. I expected something as powerful as the Man on Wire film which was stunning. It was well written but didn’t drag me in like others in the “New York as character in the story” genre. Again, bought it for the cover and the promise of some connection between the early days of the twin towers and their later demise.
Something better but not quite easy on the brain is "Chronic City" by Jonathan Lethem. He's crafted another loopy lyrical lounging lay-about classic. It is laced with lunacy (or at least out of this world orbits) and lost loves. It has all the typical things you'd expect in a novel about a slightly alternate world New York City, like a roaming tiger, a run amok tunneling machine, a grown up blank slate but lovable or at least affable child actor with a girlfriend astronaut trapped in a decaying orbit in the sky, and a lazy eyed rock critic-conspiracy theorist named Perkus Tooth who is pretty certain that Marlon Brando is still alive waiting on another island to be called forth to save the city from the cynical billionaire mayor.
The Hunger Games was a quick read (warning it is book one of three and only two are out so far). Aimed at young readers, it can be a bit basic at times, but it’s worth a read if you like “dystopian death race boy meets girl and they both have to kill each other to survive” stories.
"Her Fearful Symmetry" by Audrey Niffenegger is your basic story about twin girls who have girls who maybe die and haunt and sometimes body hop. Worth reading just for the pleasure of how she writes."Mariposa" by Greg Bear was worth reading if you like slightly futuristic thrillers about insolvent America, overeaching corporations as military replacements, and a sprinkling of smart dust.
"The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers" by Thomas Mullen is pure gold. It is set in the 1930's in the midwest during a time of fast cars, bank robbers, and the newly emerging FBI. The story revolves around the oddly magical ability of two swashbuckling brothers to evade (mostly) death while they try to stay one step ahead of the law and maybe a half a step away from the breadlines.
"Six Suspects" by Vikas Swarup (author of the book that was made into the Slumdog Millionaire movie) is ok, but not great. Basically it starts with the murder of a playboy millionaire spoiled brat and then explores the six people who were all at the party who may have reason to kill him. It isn't a bad conceit but it didn't really feel like there was much mystery or tension.
"Galileo's Dream" wasn’t bad, a mish mash of history (pretty vivid depiction of Galileo’s place and time) and world spanning future hopping many dimensional time traveling trouble making. Kinda confused and anticlimactic but Kim Stanley Robinson is always a good writer and this might have just been a bit of the “reach exceeds grasp” sorta experiment that all good authors have to try. If you like history and sci-fi and ruminations on the nature of human nature, you’ll probably enjoy it. If you want something much deeper in the “history of scientific thinking with a touch of swashbuckling adventure genre” and something that is a bit more finely wrought (though wacky at times because of the author’s playful anachronisms), read the The Baroque Cycle.
If you’ve never read Jess Walters, now would be a good time to start. His new book, The Financial Lives of the Poets is a compact little story about one man’s descent into hell during the financial meltdown. It is funny, sad and hopeful.
Non-Fiction
"A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" by Donald Miller is a short exploration of the elements of a good story and how you can think about your life as a story (and how to edit it along the way to guide it to be a better one). There is one particular story about a family who, among other things, decides to invite world leaders over to their house for a sleepover and the richness that springs from that one inciting incident (oh yeah, a good story has a character who wants something (even better if its something good for his life, his family, his community, or the world) and has to overcome obstacles (if you don't fail you aren't really aiming high enough and the best characters know there will be stumbles and falls along the way) to get it, but usually the character is comfortable and like most of us does not want to rock the boat... (so they need an inciting incident to get them moving). Read the book.
"Whatever it Takes" by Paul Tough is a book about Geoffrey Canada's efforts to build the Harlem Children's Zone. If you care at all about education read this book. If you like reading about doing the impossible, read this book. It has heartbreaking passages and inspirational ideas. I saw Geoffrey speak not that long ago and was pleasantly shocked by some of the things he said.
While we don’t burn scientists at the stake quite as often anymore there still is a surplus of Denialism. This book is an interesting screed on the widespread distrust of science and fact. It’s not a perfect book and seems a bit too arrogant at times (the people who should read it would never get past the first chapter), but overall it has some startling and disturbing examples of denial in the face of overwhelming evidence. While finding the link for this book I found another book about truthiness that sounds intriguing. True Enough.
"Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea" by Gary Kinder is the true story of the recovery of a ship filled with gold and other historic artifacts dating back to the American gold rush. Great story of the perils of going to sea, the origins of the gold rush, the amazing efforts of one man and his team to establish a working scientific presence 8-10,000 feet below the surface of the ocean, and the ensuing legal wrangling that followed when they discovered the most gold ever found in a shipwreck. A completely wonderful adventure even more fun because it really happened. One of the best elements of the book (and really the core of the story) is the main character. Tommy (Harvey) Thompson is a template for the idea of creativity, invention, perseverance, and the scientific method. This is a story about doing what all the experts thought was impossible. A must read.
Movies...
"ZombieLand" rocks.
Music...
Massive Attack's new album is deep and wonderful. Buy Heligoland now.
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