# Let's read and discuss "Flashback", the new novel by Dan Simmons.

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**Created:** [August 3, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-read-and-discuss-flashback-the-new-novel-by-dan-simmons/591292 "2011-08-03T05:57:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-read-and-discuss-flashback-the-new-novel-by-dan-simmons/591292/21 "2012-07-25T05:47:39Z")

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Based on your posts, I’m sure you would enjoy the complete immolation of America as spelled out in this book.

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-read-and-discuss-flashback-the-new-novel-by-dan-simmons/591292/22 "2012-07-25T05:58:22Z")

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> [@JohnT](#):
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> Based on your posts, I’m sure you would enjoy the complete immolation of America as spelled out in this book.

No, I’d much prefer America to become a better place, especially since I live here. Besides, it seems to be one of those standard right wing bashings of everything they consider “left”; where they portray the left as this incoherent mutually contradictory mashup of everything bad in the world.

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