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  <title><![CDATA[Plan B]]></title>
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  <default_description>Turning thirty was never supposed to be like this. Ten years ago, Ben, Lindsey, Chuck, Alison, and Jack graduated from NYU and went out into the world, fresh-faced and full of dreams for the future. But now Ben's getting a divorce, Lindsey's unemployed, Alison and Chuck seem stuck in ruts of their own making, and Jack is getting more publicity for his cocaine addiction than his multimillion-dollar Hollywood successes. Suddenly, turning thirty - past the age their parents were when they were born, older than every current star athlete or pop music sensation - seems to be both more meaningful and less than they'd imagined ten years ago. Jonathan Tropper's wonderful debut novel is about more than friendship, love, celebrity, addiction, kidnapping, or even turning thirty - it's a heartfelt comic riff on what it means to be an adult against your will, to be single when you thought you'd have a family, to discover you are not in fact immortal, and to learn that &quot;Star Wars&quot; is as good a life lesson today as it was when you were six years old.AUTHORBIO: Jonathan Tropper earned a graduate degree in writing at NYU, and now lives in Westchester, NY.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Feb 04 08:37:03 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just reread this book for the 7th time.  I bought it back in 2000 - when it first came out - and read it in one night.  Rereading it this last time, again, took about 4 hours.  I decided to reread it because I needed to get out of my post Infinite Jest funk, and wanted to be able to say that I had...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45352480">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this author, so I'll read anything he writes. This was his first novel and I enjoyed it. I feel like the middle section went on a little long, but it had a nice satisfying ending. Book of Joe was one of my all-time favorites and I am looking forward to his newest book coming out in paperback....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69962162">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jonathan Tropper is becoming one of my favorite authors. He's so easy to read--this was another that I finished in a day. (I really need to get back to work...too much free time at home.)<br/><br/>This engaging story looks at a group of college friends who recently turned thirty. One of the guys i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41945780">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Aug 26 08:53:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's quite seldom that a book gives me an epiphany like this one did. I'm not sure if this book would affect others the way that it did me; one storyline between two characters REALLY hit home for me. I still think that most people would enjoy it. But for me, I'm turning thirty and this book capture...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68952699">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked this up on vacation - it was one of the books left in our vacation home's bookshelf - and finished it fairly quickly. Pretty easy read, and though I'm younger than the characters in the book, I found it easy to relate to their situation (getting older and not knowing what to do, where life is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31669594">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title of this novel refers to two separate things, one of which is more symbolic than the other. The more symbolic reference is to the novel's main character, who is seriously contemplating a new course of action to get his life back on track. He's about to turn thirty and has very little to sho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8923817">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had a strong <em>St. Elmo's Fire</em> vibe to it (which is one of my favorite movies). It's about a group of close college friends, dealing with growing up and growing apart now that college is over. They are all thirty or about to turn thirty and are very angsty about it. At times I was rolling my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76428007">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74239461">
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Oct 17 18:10:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Over the top at times...comical...but yet very belieavable. I felt this book related to the TV show Friends.... lovable characters that had a litle bit of me and people I know in them. <br/><br/>For me the most riveting chapter was the chapter when the neighbor died. Even though it was a real quic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74239461">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39294840">
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    <name><![CDATA[Katherine]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Skillfully done, but glib, formulaic, and predictable. I wasn't going to finish it, but then I had a bout of insomnia and it was exactly what I could handle at 3:00 a.m. And it was just as predictable at the end as it seemed in the beginning. Tropper's a decenter writer. I think this is his first bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39294840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60860195">
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Plan B was tropper's first novel, and I thought it would be a slow start.  I really liked the book.  Tropper is one of my favorite authors now.  I think it might be because my movie wall at home is full of SF/Fantasy, Action, and Romantic comedys.  Tropper falls in the last category.  I think his bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60860195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57498210">
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  <read_at>Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed May 27 09:47:42 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easy read--didn't love like I loved How to Talk to a Widower--I didn't find the characters quite as quirky or funny as in his other books, but it was fairly interesting and especially appropriate to read in your 30's when life is so not what you thought it would be!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second Tropper book I've read.  This one was not a good as &quot;This is Where I Leave You&quot; but it was still entertaining.  I would classify it as &quot;Dude Lit&quot;, a light look at turning 30 surrounded by college friends.  It had some good moments.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Tropper's first book, about the angst of turning 30.  It's great to read an entertaining book about problems I don't have!  He captures that difficult time in your late 20's when you don't exactly know what your plan is, but you know your life isn't following it.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have now read all of Jonathan Tropper's books (he does have a new one coming out next month though).  I like his style of writing, he's very funny but intelligent at the same time.  He is the definition of 'guy-lit' (like 'chick-lit')!]]></body>
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    <review id="78336813">
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    <body><![CDATA[Really found the plot line weak but found some of the relationships interesting. I liked the personal growth each experienced but liked this the least of the 4 Tropper books I have read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[not as hard hitting as some of his other books, but a solid first book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't expecting Tropper's first novel to live up to his other novels, but it certainly did. He captures the lives of five friends from NYU perfectly, all of them at a crossroads in their life as they turn 30 and live and work in Manhattan. <br/><br/>It's about trying not to live in the past, wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54790567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great Jonathan Tropper novel, although I think this may be my least favorite. While it was engaging and well-written with interesting and flawed characters (like Mr. Tropper's other novels) I think that Ben is my least favorite narrator. Maybe because I read his other three novels before <em>Pla...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48103982">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember where I read about this book or why I wanted to read it, but I'm very glad I did.  Jonathan Tropper has officially been added to my list of favorite authors.  There is something about Tropper's writing style that I fell in love with.  The dialogue feels natural and his characters are easy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67542872">more...</a>]]></body>
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