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    <body><![CDATA[The writing here is whip-smart and I would pay a hundred dollars for the reaction I have in my gut when I read this book. Pam Houston helps me locate the memories I forget I carry: the glittering world inside a trout, the mystery and excitement of peeling a deer’s skin from its body, the satisfact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25932130">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading several raving reviews of this book, I had high hopes for it.  The title made me laugh and piqued my curiosity.  Its a book containing ten or so short stories about different women and their cowboys...  The first short story was absolutely horrible, I didn't like the style of writing a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26229672">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave this collection to a girl once who I was trying to woo.  I truly felt as though Houston had captured the &quot;essence&quot; of modern femininity and that by giving this young lady such a relevant and symbolic short story book, I was on my way to...well, you know.  The young woman's reaction,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16869395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh wow.  I never knew I had a deeply closeted obsession with cowboys and outdoorsmen until I read this collection of short stories. Houston's writing makes me want to trade my corolla for a horse, my books for guns, and my nerdy love interests for roguish deer hunters.  Seriously.  This is great stu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6847873">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Before reading any of Pam Houston's books I attended her reading of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Sight Hound" title="Sight Hound">Sight Hound</a> because my roommate absolutely loved the book.  Seeing Pam in real life, and hearing her book in her voice really added to my experience when I then read the book myself.  I followed that up with <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Waltzing the Cat" title="Waltzing the Cat">Waltzing the Cat</a> which I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9463477">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book my then-boyfriend, now husband gave to me...and he turned me into a life-long Pam Houston fan. He LOANED ME One Hundred Years of Solitude first but he bought me this one...<br/>This is probably my favorite book but everything she's written is fantastic - and while I count the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5825805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a collection of short stories about women, relationships, independence, travel, and the outdoors. The stories are brief and interesting. Kind of on the cheezy, touch-feely side, but I tend to like that. Also, I think from the very start I just kind of liked the author,... her voice and appro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1185551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me wish I was more outdoorsy---it's a collection short stories by Pam Houston, who heads the UC Davis creative writing program. It's not too literary where you feel like you're in over your head, just very strong women who can and cannot remove themselves from sometimes abusive someti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43178502">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title says it all. I don't care whether they can construct a coherent sentence, they make we weak at the knees. This is an educated intelligent woman talking. What is there about these guys?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading Pam Houston is like having my mind read. &quot;How to talk to a Hunter,&quot; is funny and poignant. I enjoyed &quot;Waltzing the Cat,&quot; better- but both 5 stars!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These compact stories are well-written, with vivid imagery and interesting explorations of attraction to wildness, whether in the form of rugged men, raging rivers, snow-camping in sub-zero temperatures, or wounded animals.  I found some of the stories much more compelling than others, especially &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68236786">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it!  The author has an authenticity to language and storytelling that makes her voice thoroughly unique and entertaining.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an unenthusiastic three. I thought I would like this book better, but it just seemed kind of dated. The narrator in every story (who I'm unable to separate from the author herself) clearly thinks she's a bad ass, even as she's disparaging herself. It's a little annoying. Also, she seems to w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58851482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The cover of my copy of this book includes a blurb from the LA Times review: &quot;Houston claims for women the terrain staked out by male writers from Hemingway to Richard Ford.&quot; I wouldn't go that far. Houston's protagonists are usually women for whom wild spaces are simply substitutions for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26455783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll admit it, I picked this up based on the title. I mean, what a great title, right? Unlike most books chosen based on title, though, this one paid off. It's a great book of short stories, mostly centered around women's relationships with men who are unsuitable for one reason or another, generally...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10033763">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This might come as a shock. I'm neither a manly hunter/cowboy/alcoholic in love with horny white-tailed deer nor a woman attracted to such types. But this book cracked me up! I doubt all women are as testosterone dependent as the narrator in most of these stories (or, if they are, I need to go kill ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71379654">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like her writing style but I read Sighthound first and it was soooo much better than the short stories of smart women making bad choices in men. I guess I've made so many bad choices of my own over the years, I just didn't feel like being reminded of all the duds I thought were so great at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52701009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A smart, outdoorsy lesbian I know ADORES this book and says Pam Houston is her favorite author. I'd never have picked up a book with this insipid title if it weren't for wanting to find out what the hell could possibly be the allure. Turns out, the deep short-storytelling IS awesome. Reflective, int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50750599">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I truly enjoyed Houston's prose and her adventure stories, but admit that near the end of the book, they seemed to sort of all meld together into one long story. And seemed to verge on creative nonfiction. Other people obviously enjoyed this effect, however, as it was a huge bestseller. I think her ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48824586">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a love/hate relationship with short stories. This collection is like a meal of appetizers, each one is well-crafted and self-contained. You enjoy them, but are ready for the next course. My only criticism is that there wasn't much variety between the themes/characters: one seemingly independe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40526185">more...</a>]]></body>
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