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    When the Mountain Shook
    When the Mountain Shook
    When the Mountain Shook
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    When the Mountain Shook

    By Robert Abernathy

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      What? Ok... this was a future earth after an holocaust. Right. I get that. Evolution versus technology. Yes... but so what? There was no point in this story... maybe it's part of a novel but it doesn't feel like nothing. It was a pointless reading material. I don't get it. Sorry.

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