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|pages=336
|publisher=Penguin Books Ltd
|date=28 Sep September 2000|isbncover=0141184949|amazonukaznuk=<amazonuk>0141184949</amazonuk>|amazonusaznus=<amazonus>0141184949</amazonus>
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The first thing you'll notice about Silent Spring is that it is so beautifully written. In you go expecting a lecture from a person intelligent and worthy but perhaps rather dull. You couldn't be more wrong. Silent Spring opens with a haunting picture of rural America being turned slowly by poison into a barren wasteland. It is only a few pages long but the alarm bells rung by her short parable are alarming indeed. As winter leaves the chemically stricken land what does the new season bring? In Carson's words:
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|name=Magda
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|comment= I am extremely prejudiced towards this book (though I have not read it, sad, I know) because it seems to be one of the major reasons for anti-DDT hysteria with resulting return of malaria to palces where it was almost eradicated for example.
But your review acknowledges some of the issues and sees the book for what it is (as in early call to action).
I am not sure if beautiful poetic writing is a Good Thing in polemics, though. Gets bit close to unfair, maybe... like giving the victim families a big voice in murder trials.
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|comment=''' I think that this book is beautifully written and well planned. it is clear in its meaning and it creates a powerful image. '''
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|name=fuzzy_Katze
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|comment=''' I think that this book made a good point, but became rather repetitive as the book wore on.}}
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