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  <title><![CDATA[Thinner]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[     Ahh, the good old Gypsy stereotype, c'mon give me a break.<br/><br/>I devoured Koontz and King back in middle school and part of high school. In retrospect, I could have spent my time on better books, but these chillers were an escape from things I didn't want to think about, especially at ni...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47901414">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was written by Richard Bachman, and for years, King denied that he was Bachman. The thing I love about the Bachman Books is that they do have a slightly different tone from the other King novels. It's almost as if &quot;Bachman&quot; feels more cold toward his characters- a character we ge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38524201">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 02 03:37:02 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 27 06:36:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great read from the King of horror: Stephen King. This was the first time I read him under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman &amp; was also my first SK bookclub read. To those that haven`t read the book, the story is about an overweight lawyer by the name of Billy Halleck who accidentally knocks ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61279269">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Apr 18 19:13:39 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second S.K. book I've read... makes me less appreciative of gypsies... that's a shame. The ending was sad but less predictable than Pet Sematary.]]></body>
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    <review id="55660421">
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 11 07:36:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Crap, King.  Why do you always do this to I?  The back of the book makes the whole thing sounds rather interesting.  You start off with a nice push; sentences, paragraphs that make me think &quot;Great Gatsby, I think he's done it!&quot;  But in the end, you disappoint me yet again and make me think...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55660421">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read by Joe Montagna, this story was originally published under the Bachman name, and was the one that finally uncovered Richard Bachman's true identity. While it has the dark perspective of all Bachman books, but is overall more like traditional King horror. <br/><br/>I do have to keep reminding ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60920650">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46763211">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not a big fan of horror, but I'd feel awful if I never read a Stephen King. I mean, come on, it's Stephen King. This one was gruesome and creepy, as expected, so it delivered on that front. What made me mad, though, was that one of the characters in the book said something like, &quot;This whole...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46763211">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The real weirdness in reading this book was that after the gypsy curse, this guy is overweight, eats like he always does, and one day in court, his pants literally fall down. Normally in our freakish culture this is a cause for celebration. Not in this book - nope, no sir. Chillsville. And the guy's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40778081">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps I have an immunity to the chills of Stephen King's writing, but this book is not scary. The storyline itself is about an overweight lawyer who gets cursed for killing a gypsy woman and begins to lose weight... without ever reaching a limit. As his friends and family all become frightened and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77686007">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unlike most Stephen King books (in my experience), this one has a main character you can't really bring yourself to like, maybe because this was originally written under King's pen name Richard Bachman. Through all Billy's cursed weightloss, he struggles and works against it, continuing to blame his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67514900">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have the hardcover book of Thinner which has a picture of a man that is not Stephen King on the back jacket cover. I don’t know who this man is but the book definitely had lots of hints dropped seeming to be asking the question” who will be sleuth enough to discover Bachman is Stephen King ?...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49175757">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book but not as much as other Steven King books. Just to clarify now the book and the movie are nothing alike none zip nada. Its about a overweight lawyer who accidently hits a old gypsy lady when he does her father puts a curse on him. A curse that every day he losses weight no matter ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42492028">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first completed Stephen King book!  A long time ago I had attempted to read The Shining, but it creeped me out so much I couldn't finish it.  I recently joined a second book club, and this was the book chosen for this month.  Perhaps, this isn't a classic Stephen King novel, but it just didn't ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30250703">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a surprisingly hard time putting this down. Someone described it to me as a &quot;lesser&quot; Stephen King work, which is true, and I noticed it was written as a 'Richard Bachman' book. (Oh, if only I knew someone that has read almost every Stephen King book and could tell me why he wrote und...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70806751">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was ok.  From King I expect more.  There were typos and some parts were just not well written.  It caused me to stop and reread sections and took me out of the feel of the story.  The story itself was great though.  I think this book lacked more in editing than writing and while the author is res...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48598424">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40133381">
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    <body><![CDATA[I was at my granparents house when I found this book. I was eleven at the time. I don't know why it caught my attention, but it did. I had never read anything by Stephen King before. So I took it to my bedroom, expecting the worst. I was quite surprised to find that I was enjoying the book. It was c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40133381">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thinner by Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King) is a revenge novel. It tackles with the issues of blame, guilt, obesity and romany gypsy curses.<br/><br/>When I first started reading, I couldn't help buy compare this to Richard Matheson's <em>The Incredible Shrinking Man</em>. There are strong similarities t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4806319">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Billy Halleck is a lawyer. An obese lawyer this side of a heart attack. One day as he and his wife are driving home, he hits an old Gypsy woman who happens to be jaywalking. After getting a slap on the wrist, he meets an old Gypsy man outside the courthouse who touches his cheek and whispers, &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12623648">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When an old Gypsy man curses Billy Halleck for sideswiping his daughter, six weeks later he's 93 pounds lighter. Now Billy is terrified. And desperate enough for one last gamble...that will lead him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil melting his flesh away.<br/><br/>I enjoyed this boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59412801">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great Read. This is my first time reading Stephen King even though I've seen many of his movies including &quot;Thinner&quot;. It's been years since I'd seen the movie so I wanted to read the book. The book is always better than the movie and that's certainly the case with &quot;Thinner&quot;. When ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39796017">more...</a>]]></body>
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