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    <body><![CDATA[Second only to Catcher in the Rye in my all-time favorite list of books.  If you are a writer, if you've taken a creative writing class, if you've verged on totally and completely fucking up your life with sweet redemption held just at your fingertips, but which you chose to thumb your nose at for j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6436040">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonder Boys<br/>Over Christmas I met a woman named Storm. When she found out I was a writer she became excited and inquisitive. Her therapist, she said, told her she should &quot;reinvent&quot; herself so she signed up for a five-day writer's workshop. She asked me all sorts of questions and I answ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11770499">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[He tried far too hard to be eclectic, over the top, and kitschy.  The entire novel came off as insincere.  The only likable characters, in my opinion, were Hannah and Sara, because they were the only ones with any kind of grip on the real world.  Grady was a slacker and an asshole, Crabtree was a di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/103903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[chabon's adaptation of the famous tenacious d song.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book after I saw the movie, so I am judging it a bit backwards. I read with a vision in my head of the way the characters were portrayed in the film, and tried to envision them the way Michael Chabon wrote them. For example, in the book, Grady Tripp is a large, imposing man, and his frie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3800365">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What does a boa constrictor, a tuba, a transvestite, Marilyn Monroe's jacket, a man called Crabtree, a lot of pot, a car with buttprints and a blind dog have in common? They all crosses Grady Tripp's path in the course of two days where Tripp's wife finds out that he has a mistress <em>and</em> that she is p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49867799">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wanted to dislike Wonder Boys. I even tried to dislike it. I mean, here it was a book about writers (barf) by Michael Chabon (barf) who kind of gives me the willies (I think it’s the hair). Despite all that, Wonder Boys still crawled into my heart.<br/><br/>So we’ve got pot-smoking, wif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47045805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Last year in my A to Z Reading Challenge I read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7745.Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas_A_Savage_Journey_to_the_Heart_of_the_American_Dream" title="Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas  A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson">Fear and Loathing</a> in Las Vegas, written by Hunter S. Thomson . I loathed that book, which was a gratuitous orgy of abuse of drugs, alcohol, and women . There was no redeeming value. Michael Chabon, in writing Wonder Boys,<br/>has told  the tale of ano...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43886530">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's funny, but every time someone tells Grady his novel's a bust, I'm not sure if they mean <em>his</em> <u>Wonder Boys</u>, or the one in my hands. <br/><br/>Because oi, what a bust. <br/><br/>First off, Chabon's a great writer. He globs the exposition thick, but his simile and characterization are so spot-on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22562388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned that being a pot smoking, washed-up, hippie-like Professor in Pittsburgh isn't all it's cracked up to be.<br/><br/>I also learned that it's one of the things I aspire to be most, although maybe not in Pittsburgh. But somewhere.<br/><br/>Read it, you won't be disappointed. Chabon does a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2177585">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chabon is a masterful writer and I can't wait to read more of his books.  They made a movie from his story, but it's horrible.  Chabon's book houses a good story, yes, but what makes it fantastic is his writing.  There's no way that that could be captured in a movie.  Skip the movie, read the book. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76298509">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the words of the protagonist's wife - appropriately for me, also named Emily - &quot;Wonder Boys&quot; all seems very male. Recommended to me by my 40-ish male attorney boss, who likened it to &quot;The Talented Mr. Ripley&quot;, it reminded me more of &quot;The World According to GARP&quot;. The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71737552">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. This wasn't my first foray in the the wonderful world of Michael Chabon, but it was his first adult novel that I have read. I  had previously read <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://readwriteknitpanic.blogspot.com/2009/03/summerland-michael-chabon.html">Summerland</a> which is a fantastic Young Adult fantasy. I'd seen the movie version of <em>Wonder Boys</em> ages ago and loved it, so I was definitely excited to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66095582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Trifling. After I put this down that's the only thing I could think of that would accurately convey what I was feeling after burning precious brain cells and wasting God-given minutes I'll never get back. But maybe I was wrong? After all when Chabon first appeared on the scene along with Ethan Canin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63402582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chabon, another personal favorite author of mine, forges a story about a series of events perpetuated by a writing professor, his talented and suicidal student, and his predatory publisher. Although Chabon is excellent at spinning narratives, I found this novel to be a bit cliche and maybe that is j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51609765">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonder Boys is a beautifully written funny and fun read. This is a rare combination as many beautifully written books like Oscar winning movies tell stories that are neither funny nor fun. We enter the world of the writer that has published with minor fame but mostly within a small circle of writers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78442491">more...</a>]]></body>
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