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But i thought youd like to see the new cover art of the trade paperback edition of old mans war and the cover art for the ghost brigades, both of which were sent to me by tor, i can only surmise, as a birthday present. But can a two to three hour movie truly hold the vastness and complexity of old mans war. The old ways of painting, writing, sculpting and composing no longer seemed adequate to capture the world. There are a ton of books but talking about the very different and the very amazing ones among all the books, there are not a very big amount of such books.
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