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Personal Review: No Impact Man
By reading the front and back cover of the book, it could be concluded that No Impact Man would be a fairly boring and drug out book. To most, including myself, a novel about a random, guilty liberal who decided he should stop making an impact on the environment while dragging his family down into this endeavor sounds very unappealing. Despite this, I did have high hopes that it would turn out to be a good novel; the environment is indeed in danger and is in need of help, the project sounded unique and original, and the idea of such a project raises questions of just how it would be done properly. I had high hopes for the book, but expected very little of it. In the novel, everything was told in first-person point-of-view. He spoke

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