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  <title><![CDATA[Inside, Outside: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>From the world of faith to the world of show business, the   theater of war to the theater of presidential politics, a novel traces   one Jewish family's dramatic, often hilarious adventures on the way to   the American dream. Reprint. &lt;i&gt;NYT. &lt;/i&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1985</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Herman Wouk]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Feb 27 17:04:34 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 22 15:17:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thanks, Khay for pointing out such an eggregious error! As I was reading this for the fourth time last week I was thinking, if only I could give more than five stars - it didn't even occur to me I gave LESS!<br/>This book is a masterpiece and I learn something new every time.  It is in the most sup...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/117019">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 04 23:47:34 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book reminded me a lot of a male, Jewish version of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (one of my favorites).  I loved this book as well, but unlike ATGiB, it's not something I can see myself picking up over and over again, just to read a particularly moving scene.  It did, however, make me laugh out lou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50651807">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Inside, Outside was hilarious at times and depressing at times - Herman Wouk really captured the awkwardness of growing up, of trying to fit in, and of trying to find oneself.  It was not a quick or easy read, but well worth the trouble.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best books I've ever read. Such a vivid picture of Jewish immigrant life in New York during the early 1900's. I really loved it.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74455700]]></url>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best books I have ever read. Insightful, interesting and culturally accurate, set in a time seldom learned about.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67255108]]></url>
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 02 13:52:29 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 02 13:55:45 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved this book. Not only does it tell a great story, many of the incidents described were similar to things my dad had told me of his youth. Although the narrator of the book is a Jewish boy and my dad was Catholic, the similarity of the times and the city was somehow comforting to me ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19315270">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jul 28 12:57:45 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My cousin suggested I read this book, and I'm so glad she did. It gave me a lot of insight into what it means to be Jewish. It's just a good book with a lot of laughs...it can get a bit R-rated in places, so if that's a problem, skip over those parts. Maybe because I&quot;m a child of the 60s, I rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27657267">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Mon Aug 11 15:24:12 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Being born in the early 80s, I was wondering what I was doing reading this book about a very different generation. I was pleasantly surprised. On one hand the book brought some nostalgia for some of the stories I heard about my own father and his brothers growing up in Queens. On the other hand, I f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24840785">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Feb 27 22:51:26 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A slow starter, but definitely worth getting into.  Lots of &quot;inside jokes&quot; for Orthodox Jews, but probably interesting for the general population as well as a story of immigration and acculturation.  My husband and my brother have not stopped rereading and discussing this book since they f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/119367">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book that launched my love affair with Hermon Wouk. There was something about this story of a Jew who straddled the line between Judaism and not being very religious that I think probably speaks to a lot of Jews who are struggling with the guilt of assimilation.]]></body>
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    <review id="4622689">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a semi-autobiographical novel.  It's hilarious and touching and about nothing more than a Jewish kid from New York who grows up to be a novelist.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4622689]]></url>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unexpectedly hilarious...one of the few books which actually made me laugh right out loud.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[hilarious]]></body>
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