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  <title><![CDATA[The Winner]]></title>
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  <default_description>THE DREAM . . . She is 20, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter when LuAnn Tyler is offered the gift of a lifetime: a $100 million lottery jackpot. All she has to do is change her identity and leave the U.S. forever. THE KILLER . . . It's an offer she dares to refuse . . . until violence forces her hand and thrusts her into a harrowing game of high stakes, big money subterfuge. It's a price she won't fully pay . . . until she does the unthinkable and breaks the promise that made her rich. THE WINNER...For if LuAnn Tyler comes home, she will be pitted against the deadliest contestant of all: the chameleon-like financial mastermind who changed her life. And who can take it away at will . . .   </default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1997</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Winner</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[David Baldacci]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This started off with a lot of promise..but as the story trudged on, i got even more interested..and then it was all boring and it simply got worser *Yawn!*<br/>The thing I hate most about this book:<br/> <br/>I HATE near-perfect heroines. LuAnn Tyler gets on my nerves. She cant be learned and in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28346746">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jun 13 16:15:58 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Being highly recommended to me I was anxious to absorb myself reading a good book. Unfortunately, this wasn't one of them. <br/><br/>Primarily, I was disappointed with descriptive nudity, a masturbation scene and a sex scene, all of which could have been removed and the book as a whole would have ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24014931">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57603991">
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  <read_at>Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ever since school got out for the summer, oddly enough, I have been reading a lot. <br/><br/>I picked up a few books at a local church book sale.  <br/>I have heard really good things about David Baldacci (mainly because of the movie based on his book, Absolute Power) and I found this book for $....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57603991">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an older stand-alone book (not &quot;Camel Club&quot; related) about a guy that learns how to manipulate the National lottery system, lure the potential winners into his scheme, and make millions for them and himself - at a very high cost which includes risking their lives. A  page-turner wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56430260">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20607059">
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 20 18:28:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably my favorite Baldacci book.  If you love a good mystery, this book is sure to please!]]></body>
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    <review id="70763299">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Sep 10 15:32:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[David Baldacci proved his mastery of the modern thriller with Absolute Power and Total Control. The Winner was released in 1998 and looked to continue the Baldacci brand of storytelling. Destitute waitress LuAnn Tyler lives a ramshackle existence with her newborn daughter in a poverty stricken south...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70763299">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was disappointing to me.  A fairly weak plot, that simply wasn't plausible.  I don't expect flawless, unbreakable story lines all the time, but this was just too much of a stretch to buy into. <br/><br/>eg:  The evil genius is smart enough to arrange all the evil machinations he has to arrang...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52846374">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48995098">
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 02 02:24:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[WORTH BUYING.<br/><br/>First, I was really in hesitation to buy a book not of John Grisham's works; I was in fear that these authors might not be equal with him, except for some like J.K. Rowling. So I tried this one. <br/><br/>When I end reading this, I crave for David's. I was a fool to say th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48995098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54041703">
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is really two books in one.  Having recently re-read Shirley Jackson's short story &quot;The Lottery&quot; I was ready for this diversion.  It takes a few massive leaps, suspension of disbelief helps suspense in general.  There were a couple too many coincidences that we required to move the pl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54041703">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75328108">
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the most spine-tingling, suspenseful book I've ever read!  It is a quick read, in fact, I couldn't put it down...about a lottery fix but more stories than that are involved.  The characters are well described, but the book does not go into unnecessary descriptive detail.  Can't wait to read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75328108">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30321488">
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    <body><![CDATA[The story began with LuAnn Tyler a 20 year old mother who was trapped in the poverty cycle living in a shamble trailer in the backwater of Georgia. Unknown to her was a scheme being put to work by a Mastermind, a detail plan to cheat at the National Lottery which would make her and 11 others multi-m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30321488">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46628942">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kim]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Pleasant Grove, UT]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is definitely my kind of book, with twists and turns keeping me on my toes until the end.  Like any thriller, it's a little unbelievable at times (guys really like this kind of thing, people getting out of impossible situations time after time) but I enjoyed the suspense. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fun read, and I enjoyed it.  It's been a long time since I've read a murder/thriller novel and I forgot how much I like the anticipation of a good suspenseful story.  I did this book an injustice by chopping up my reading time too much, but overall it was a good read.]]></body>
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    <review id="75163087">
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    <name><![CDATA[Colleen]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book - full of intersting twists - but a bit unrealistic and too many &quot;coincidental&quot; events took place.  It's about winning the lottery (it's fixed) and where it takes the winner and who is in control.  But overall - a fast read and doesn't lose your interest.]]></body>
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    <review id="69702294">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very fun, intelligently written book.  I haven't enjoyed a suspense story as much as this in a long time.  I was disappointed in the last few pages when the fights seemed to take on a kind of horror flick mode and no one died when they should have or suffered as much as they should have f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69702294">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53319922">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mike]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chickamauga, GA]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[Fast paced sinister thriller. Kept me engaged through 625pgs paperback. LuAnn is an impressively drawn character. The &quot;evil genius&quot; of the story is creepy, seemingly omniscient. This was my first Baldacci, have read him since and will probably again. A good summer read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My second Baldacci book was great! A poor single mother takes an offer to win a fixed national lottery for 100 million dollars in a moment of desperation, and finds that her life is no longer her own. This novel is filled with drama, intrigue, and action. Really good!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderfully original.  The heroine and the villain were not your traditional two-dimensional characters with slightly different background and quirks like you get in most novels of this type.  The bad guy was very scary and the heroine was a wonderfully strong woman.<br/><br/>The plot was original...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60882913">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one really grabbed me - fast-paced, lots of action. It's a rather unusual story about a poverty-stricken woman who is offered the chance to win a &quot;fixed&quot; lottery - an offer she can't really refuse. But will it solve all her problems, or only create new ones? Lots of suspense.]]></body>
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