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  <title><![CDATA[Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970 (&quot;Rebel Inc&quot; S.)]]></title>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1993</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 14 20:25:19 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 14 20:43:46 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book on a dusty shelf and took every word down like water. This book was just as thirsty as I was. Let have a drink together I said! ]]></body>
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    <review id="1448136">
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    <name><![CDATA[shawn]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri May 25 16:21:32 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 25 16:29:44 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[in lieu of any review, let me just present the text of one of my favorite stories from this collection.<br/><br/><br/>&quot;PACIFIC RADIO FIRE&quot;<br/><br/><br/>	The largest ocean in the world starts or ends at Monterey, California.  It depends on what language you are speaking.  My friend's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1448136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38945929">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ben]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 30 10:42:00 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 30 10:50:42 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[some of the early stories in this collection-- the ones that really come together at the end-- are among the best i have ever read. &quot;1/3, 1/3, 1/3&quot; and &quot;Pacific Radio Fire,&quot; for example. many of the other stories read more like fragments but are still fascinating because it's bra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38945929">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71455426">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ryan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 16 14:01:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 17 21:17:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[These stories - written between 1962 and 1970 - range from surreal and dark to whimsical and weightless, usually all at once. Results vary, but brilliance is apparent.<br/><br/>Even though it’s important to revise work and emphasize the “craft” part of narrative craft, there’s something to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71455426">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44586271">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lindsay]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Saint Louis, MO]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 27 19:12:51 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 31 08:38:04 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Now we will fly new banners from the castle, and they will be of your own choosing.</em><br/><br/>Aww...this is an endearing collection.  Made me happy and warm and enthusiastic, made me smile like listening to <em>Nashville Skyline</em> or the Fucking Champs or jumping into a covert soulja boy in my cloistered...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44586271">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="5128125">
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    <name><![CDATA[Zahra]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 26 05:52:44 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 03 06:01:43 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[براتیگان ِدیوانه‌ی لعنتی ِدوست‌داشتنی]]></body>
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    <review id="60297546">
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    <name><![CDATA[Whitaker]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 19 09:18:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 19 09:18:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-of-a-lifetime-revenge-of-the-lawn-by-richard-brautigan-1708384.html">The Independent</a>: Many attempts have been made to define Richard Brautigan's work--Beat, scat, Zen Buddhist, magical-realist, hippie, cult, outsider, naïve, pacific, lunatic. Nowhere is his work's resistance to categorical designation more apparent than in Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970. I c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60297546">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60297546]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="22843118">
    <user id="787522">
    <name><![CDATA[Paul]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 23 17:21:16 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 28 18:34:25 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well here's another review no one will read. Another few K tossed into the giant pool of Internet detritus. The stories in this book are really short; they're probably about 2 pages average. They're more scenes and/or images than actual stories with plot or established characters or any of that. So ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22843118">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22843118]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="5381271">
    <user id="141327">
    <name><![CDATA[Tyler]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Beloit, WI]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 30 15:27:08 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 04 12:36:18 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brautigan writes with a whimsical touch in this collection of brief (some as short as two sentences) stories. His turns of phrase sometimes recall the terse absolutism of film noir, except with more of a loopy absurdism thrown in. Many, if not all, of these stories could be construed as being autobi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5381271">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5381271]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="40041360">
    <user id="1800930">
    <name><![CDATA[Kye Alfred Hillig]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Puyallup, WA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sat Dec 13 18:19:58 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 15 19:10:07 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So No, I don't love him because we are both Tacoma people. This man is truly one of the greatest writers I have ever had the chance of reading. It certainly doesn't hurt that a lot of Revenge of the Lawn is based out of my city but it wasn't the big sell. Brautigan's blend of sad humor is so rich th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40041360">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40041360]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="47214464">
    <user id="1609700">
    <name><![CDATA[Caris]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 22 20:03:49 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 27 20:51:50 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always find it hard to rate collections of short stories. It's like of like giving a single score to a life's worth of words. Do those moments of crassness and vulgarity bring the score down of moments of eloquence and beauty? Can a single sentence elevate an otherwise worthless existence? Perhaps...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47214464">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47214464]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="76795330">
    <user id="1205273">
    <name><![CDATA[A.J.]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[London, Ontario, Canada]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 05 06:13:16 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 05 06:13:16 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brautigan wasn't always good, but when he was good he was very good. When he was not so good, he was self-indulgent and gimmicky. Both sides of Brautigan are on display in this collection, but the good outweighs the not so good by a wide enough margin to make it worth reading more than once.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76795330]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="7365049">
    <user id="116080">
    <name><![CDATA[Jess]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Denver, CO]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 06 20:35:42 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 04 13:58:21 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This isn't specific.  There's no way for me to specifically describe why I love Brautigan the most.  Why I love Brautigan the most is because when I read his words I hear him whispering them next to me.  Over pints of beer in the city that didn't want me but everything is okay there when he's whispe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7365049">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7365049]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="47367320">
    <user id="1350941">
    <name><![CDATA[Goozbeh]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Tue Feb 24 08:04:19 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Feb 24 08:06:44 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[وقتی زن هفت تیر خالی را تحویل پلیس می داد گفت:« زندگی کردن توی آپارتمان تک خوابه در سن هوزه با مردی که داره ویولون زدن یاد میگیره خیلی سخته «]]></body>
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    <review id="13454782">
    <user id="800630">
    <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Salem, OR]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 24 18:05:40 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finally he set fire to the radio. He piled some paper around it. He struck a match to the paper. We sat there watching it. I had never seen anybody set fire to a radio before. <br/>As the radio gently burned away, the flames began to affect the songs that we were listening to. A record that was #1 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13454782">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13454782]]></url>
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    <review id="59164350">
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    <body><![CDATA[Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970 by Richard Brautigan (1972)]]></body>
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    <review id="74958780">
    <user id="2827908">
    <name><![CDATA[John]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tiny stories ranging from excellent to &quot;huh&quot;. I'm sure they meant more when I was forty years younger in the late sixties. The title story is great.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74958780]]></url>
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    <body><![CDATA[I still have a few stories to go, but I've really enjoyed this collection. Some of the stories are just short paragraphs and the subjects range from the mundane examined -a bus ride - to the fantastical/surreal, all told in seemingly the fewest, sparest words possible. Some of them are hilarious. I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12929174">more...</a>]]></body>
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