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This is how you make a book that is just an experience to read. Very easy to read, very short, very light on pretentions. Some may find it excesively simplistic: the good guys are good, the bad guys are bad; but I do not think this is a bad thing. I think there is a place for novels with clear-cut morals, in moderation, and done right. And this is a great example on how to do it right. Bolivar is just a great character and you are just left wishing a person like him really exists in this world. Respectful to nature, capable, with a love for beauty and art...he's just a great hero. The nitpick data on life on the Amazon is also very interesting and even tough I guess the pro-nature message could be considered preachy it at least seems sincere and justified.
I loved it, plain and simple.
I loved it, plain and simple.