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Old 07-29-2014, 05:10 PM   #51
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And what a crappy choice it is too. Sorry, but it's all fluffy words and a waste of time to bother reading. Would have been better off with any of the others except the Rama one (that is also awful). The worst one won.
I really liked Rama when I read it last year after it was nominated for this category. No, it doesn't have a lot of fast-paced action, but not every book needs to have that.

This isn't the first time a book that has been bashed, and thus publicized, has won in part because of that bashing when people who had previously been on the fence payed more attention to it. (Raises hand!)
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