Much thought to the reader.

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Another reader, Linda Shinn, thought Noor should not have been sent back to Iraq.

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For a few days, Rousselot was even preoccupied by the thought that he had lost his best reader, the reader for whom he had really been writing, the only one who was truly capable of responding to his work.

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Lanier is a big thinker, and he asks his reader to follow the train of his thought, which varies pretty widely at times, though his main points include at turns arguing against the singularity (the eventuality that computers will be "smarter" than humans one day, most famously championed by Ray Kurzweil), discussing such futurists and their new religion, and of course -- taking on Web 2.0.

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That should not deter the reader from enjoying Mr Blom's impressive and thought-provoking book.

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Powerful and thought-provoking, this is a book that stays with the reader.

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The reader in search of literary criticism, or even the origins of absurdist thought, will not find it in the three new biographies.

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