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    <body><![CDATA[One of my least favorite books ever.  This is the one I threw in the creek one winter.  It became encased in ice and was beautiful.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a brain crush on Louise Erdrich.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This story about 4 women trapped inside a car during a blizzard, sharing stories about their dead ex-husband, has all the things I love in it about Louise Erdrich: the fantastic and the strange, the beautiful and the everyday, all mingled together in that overcrowded car. Plus, it manages to answer ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69354859">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i was really hoping i would like louise erdrich's fiction more as i love her poetry.  i won't write her off completely yet, as i have only read this book, but it was enh.  <br/><br/>of course, it's hard to know what is erdrich and what is michael dorris ,her former partner, with whom she collabora...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1468153">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is the weakest Erdrich novel I've read so far.  In short, it's the story of a man named Jack, who drives his businesses and marriages to fail, and of several women who marry him.  I love two of the characters, Dot and Eleanor, but I'm not sure why the others are appealing to anyone.  Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6756693">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Normally I like Louise Erdrich a lot but the whole book centered around how the various wives of one man felt about him. I just lost interest. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this book, but the main thing I got out of it was a desire to re-read the 2 other louise erdrich books I've read in the past, and to pick up more to read.  her characters are so rich, and she has this lovely habit of intertwining pieces of their story lines across her different books.  which ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20992782">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my least favorite Louise Erdrich book.  It seemed overly long to me and lacking some kind of spark.  The love just seemed to barely smolder to me; the love did not seem to be burning.<br/><br/>Granted, I read the book while I was on a drug study where I was given not one, but two psychotro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2179805">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of Erdrich's more complex novels...in it, she ties together characters from The Beet Queen, Love Medicine, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace.  I read it years ago, and am rereading it now, rather more carefully.  The things she has to say about relationships, especially about dealing with var...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30972560">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ This book looks at the previous love interests of Jack Mauser as well as his current love interest. Each woman experienced a different side of Jack. The stories highest point of interest is when they meet face to face at a funeral.<br/>  The story is good and well-written, but I didn't learn anythi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31095074">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a passionate and wild story about the past wives of one man being trapped together in a snow storm after his funeral. To pass the time they share their passionate tales of their love and life with him. Erdrich tells the tales with such gorgeous language. Would make a great film.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you enjoy a Native American themes, a little magic realism, humor, and intricately related characters acting over time, you will enjoy anything by Louise Erdrich.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this novel immensely.  The author linked together these differening women's personas so colorfully and delightfully that I found this book somewhat impossible to leave.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[together w/her late mate Michael Dorris, this pair has opened many views of American Indian life to those of us who have tribal affiliations and those curious.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another in Erdrich's long series of Ojibwe (her Native tribe) intergenerational tales. Rich, haunting...just lovely.]]></body>
    
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