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    <body><![CDATA[I'm usually good about remembering books I've read, but I remember absolutely nothing about this one.  I guess that says more than anything else could about it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is one of her most contemporary and compelling fictions.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all time favorite books - I've read it multiple times.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[disturbing &amp; profound all at once.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, I want to re-read this book.  I love Alice Walker but somehow have no memory at all of having read this book.  I read the description and some other reviews and it sounds like it must be good.<br/><br/>Here's what I wrote back in 2000:<br/><br/>Powerful book.  I was shocked at first, then I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35289088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was so disappointed when I finished it... but only because there wasn't any more to read. I've already re-read it once. Alice Walker needs to write more.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alice Walker writes in beautiful prose and this book is no exception.  It's a book about life events from several first-person points of view.  I haven't finished the book yet but am enjoying every page.]]></body>
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