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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled The Walls of the Universe about John, Prime, Reed with the genre: Literature & Fiction, United States.. Start with the sentence 'Starred Review'.
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conversations.value: Starred Review. the author (<I>Singularity's Ring</I>) sends a na&iuml;ve high school senior on a sharply imagined trip across divergent time lines in an adventure with both brains and heart. John Rayburn is approached by John Prime, another universe's version of himself, who lends him a device that permits travel to parallel worlds. John realizes he's been tricked when he can't get back home. He stops in an almost-familiar universe to analyze the device and return to his own world, where John Prime is trying to get rich quick by inventing gadgets that his new home lacks. Soon the two are making friends and putting down roots, each discovering that he carries his own fundamentally empathetic, responsible personality from one universe to another. With imagination and sympathy, the author makes the journey genuinely exciting and leaves plenty of room for future exploits. <I>(Feb.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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conversations.value: Provide the first two paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: The Walls of the Universe
  Corrundrum said, "You're worthless to me. You're not even an original." He didn't wait for an answer. "So long, kid. Sorry for bothering you. Good luck. When they find you, don't tell 'em you know me."
  Regardless of Charboric's dire demand for the source of the pinball idea, the lawyers decided that the head-to-head versions of the pinball machines were so different from anything that John had seen that the patent work could go forward. They filed several more patents on different pinball technologies in January.
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conversations.value: Provide another paragraph.
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conversations.value: Casey shrugged, then closed her eyes. "Grace and I were in the office talking when that weird guy showed up."
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conversations.value: Provide the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: He'd been getting high in his basement apartment on Winslow. There'd been a knock on the door and some guy was there with a taser. After that Ted didn't remember much, just the claustrophobia from being hog-tied in a coffin. He'd been certain it was those punk dealers who wanted their cash. If only they had given him a chance to pay, to explain! The next thing he remembered was being pulled out of the trunk by Casey Nicholson and led into the police station. Ted's pants had been wet. He'd vomited on the cops' floor. They'd taken him to the hospital, and the newspaperman showed up.
  And then Ted's parents, and he'd screamed in terror. The nurses had had to drag his dad out of the room before Ted calmed down.
  There'd been tests and questions, and Ted had answered what he could. He remembered the last two months clearly. He had a job at Lawson's. He worked nights. He had a car. He knew his address. The doctors had written down notes and nodded.
  Then they'd taken him to the corner of Hodge and Staley where the Lawson's should have been. It had been a used-car place. Then they'd taken him to his apartment, but some Mexican family lived there and it looked like they always had. No car, no apartment, no job. But his dad was back. After ten years.
  Ted wasn't sure if it was a fair trade, because he seemed to have traded in his sanity with all the rest of that stuff.