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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to really love this book, but the writing style bothered me a bit. There was so much alliteration it was distracting. Even so, I really liked the story. Or rather stories - it was more like a collection of short stories set within the framework of the character's quest. They have a lovely f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25757742">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book was like eating candy. The plot line was on the traditional side, but the story was written so well! Imagine very readable poetry that doesn't have all the line breaks. Well, there you go. That's this book. Complete with that feeling you get while reading poetry. Makes you want to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16420006">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book up on a whim and completely devoured it. The Book of Flying made my brain tingle in ways it hasn't since playing all those King's Quest games growing up.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jebus this book was amazing. I've found it hard to read anything after I finished it. I love poetry, but find that (at least in most modern novels, 1910+) novels lack a certain art in their words. They don't have that precision that poetry has. I found it in this one though. I picked it up from a se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28929134">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't give &quot;The Book of Flying&quot; 5 stars even though I enjoyed reading it perhaps as much or more than anything else I have ever read. The book is pure joy.<br/><br/>But that's what the book is supposed to do. Keith Miller, an unknown author, uses his writing style to convey make the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15624000">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Betty's book club choice!<br/><br/>I absolutely adored this book.  The writing was so beautiful and the story flowed so well.  In some respects, it reminded of The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly - another favourite of mine - in that it describes a journey on which the protagonist meets diffe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58390011">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Book of Flying is probably my most read book. Every single person in the my inner circle of friends has read, loved, and passed on this greatness. It reads like poetry, fable, and heroic epic all in one. I'm always shocked when I remember this book is out of print, and Keith Miller is an unknown...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69285489">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been a while since I've read this book and one day I plan to go back to it.  When I read it, I read a chapter at a time with the master plan of savouring whatever I had read.  It's the only book I've read that had me in awe for some reason every moment of the way.  One of my friends joke about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64035999">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Simply the best book I have ever read.  I found it several years ago in a little discount book store on the Jersey Shore, only a few dollars for a hard-back copy.  Like almost everyone else, I picked it up for the cover and title alone, and was surprised to find probably the most amazingly written a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29210519">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book draws you in from the beginning. The reader hopes to learn what happens to Pico, the young librarian and main character of the story. The author uses very descriptive images and words that doesn't overwhelm the reader but rather draws them in. All the characters he meets along the way are i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3362101">more...</a>]]></body>
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