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This book will be in my top ten reads for 2010.
I'm sure this is a great book, but I read it during 16 hours in the air, so it unfortunately became "airplane book" rather than "literature." Really, no matter how good a book is, at about hour 8 it becomes about "please let those last 50 pages somehow have taken 2 hours to read" rather than about any interesting or compelling literary, informative, or political aspects.
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I really enjoyed the first part which takes place in Haiti, the second part (Cuba and New Orleans) while good, wasn't nearly as interesting.
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