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    <body><![CDATA[Read. This. Book. <br/><br/>Bannon was a young housewife who was left alone by her traveling salesman husband in 1955. She witnessed one of her sorority sisters fall in love with another while in college. It was unrequited, but it was intense enough to spark something in Bannon that made her quest...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8878660">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While this book is historically significant as one of the pulp novels of the 1950's and is interesting from that perspective, that doesn't necessarily make it a great read. The characters are kind of shallow and caricaturish but I guess that's representative of the genre.<br/><br/>I wouldn't recom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8819971">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a random pick-out from the (tiny) LGB fiction section of B&amp;N.  I thought, well, I'll go with a historical book.<br/><br/>At first I was drawn to Beth, one of the main characters.  I thought Laura, the other, was very childish.  I soon realised she acted so primarily for Beth, who was the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42931981">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My coverage of seminal trashy lesbian pulp fiction is woefully lacking. I realized that when I was researching the etymology of &quot;butch,&quot; wondering if it could possibly have come from the character &quot;Butch&quot; in the classic board game &quot;Go to the Head of the Class,&quot; because,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21299900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an interesting read...not for the story line but as an historical text. Originally appearing the 50s, the story line, word selection, and tone reflect the values and social power structures of the time while &quot;pushing the limits,&quot; again, for the time. From the perspective of 2009, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49044972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44388448">
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    <body><![CDATA[this was one of the first lesbian books i ever read. somebody must've talked it up but lord knows why. i suppose, in its day, it was fabulous. so in that way, i do recommend it to period/pulp fans. <br/><br/>but as a Novel...no. the characters, the setting, the dialogue...i remember it being predi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44388448">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to read this for a college American Studies class and it really opens your eyes to homosexual society in the 1950s. It shows to what extremes young people were withheld from the truths of life in order to make them &quot;normal&quot;. Kinda twisted, but still a good novel about 1950s life and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60040672">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50721462">
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing what a difference a few years makes. Where Spring Fire ended with one dead and one in denial, Odd Girl Out ends beautifully, though not the way I expected after reading just the blurb on the cover. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm very biased when it comes to lesbian writing, I deducted one star only because there's not a happy lesbian couple in the end, otherwise it's a pretty good book.]]></body>
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    <review id="16972755">
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book by accident after my daughter was born. Odd Girl Out, is a gay book written in the fifty's. Because of its time there are no dirty, perverted, or graphic sense. Instead it is a innocent, school girl, love story. If you have ever been curious why the same sex is attracted to each ot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16972755">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55323160">
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  <read_at>Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[50's lesbian pulp fiction.  No joke. <br/>And too tediously dramatic to finish.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's an easy read - the lesbian version of chick lit. It's literature from the late 50's (my favorite era) so I love the aesthetic. What I didn't appreciate was the idea that this book expresses that gay relationships are relationships that have no potential to mature - they are childish. That when ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21939335">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I've said I was giddy in the beginning of this book. That died off some but still this book is great! The characters are so real and believable. I could see bits of myself in Laura &amp; Beth. I was mad towards the end of the book at the way the story was going but I don't think the ending could've b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36156087">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a classic.  Just the time period it was written in makes it worth the read.  It's called pulp fiction for the time, and it is.  The plot can be a little slow from what I remember, but nobody dies at the end, and considering this time period, it makes it work.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book, because it was interesting to see how lesbians were portrayed in the 1950s.  It is a little romance trashy novel, but worth looking into for bigger implications.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Delightfully trashy.  it indulged my as of yet superficial fascination with the ways sexuality was negotiated historically.... in the campiest way possible.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[1950's lesploitation novel, best read with bated breath. Marvel at the trashy covers! gasp at the plot synopsis! thrill at the rigid butch/femme dynamic!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[finally got down to reading this - one must suspend one's historical context a bit - this is total 50-60s pulp, and enjoyable as a retro-read...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Can't stop reading that classic lesbian pulp fiction. Pretty impressive for a pulp yarn written by a 21-year-old suburban housewife.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[bryan gave me two of these for my birthday.<br/>books. erotica. vintage. girls. what more can i ask for? perhaps a detective plot?]]></body>
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