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The Place Within: Portraits Of The American Landscape By 20 Contemporary Writers

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This book is one of the best essay collections I've ever come across. Noted writers contributed pieces about places important to them, and the result is an engaging work.

I read this book, and I must say that it is thinking like this that is the downfall of our society, both as we know it, as well as how we could know it. It is because of writings such as these that our poet-minded, philosophy-oriented culture has not become more technologically advanced in years of late. I wish that those who would write as well as those who would read this type of literature would spend their time doing something far more productive, like searching for answers to real problems, like disease and space travel, instead of puttering about discussing the imagination's status as a place vs. a space. Come on, people, get real. This book should be banned, with all other books of its kind. If that were to occur, I think our race (as people) could start to get somewhere.