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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't like this book too much. The back of the book made it seem like the book was all about the supernatural and this girl wanting to become a mermaid. It was really about a girl who smoked and went to clubs and slept with a million guys. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A young-adult novel for grown-ups.<br/><br/>Block's dreamy, PoMo fairy tale style is a love-it-or-hate-it thing, but being a sucker for the magic of Los Angeles, I'm biased in its favor. More down-to-earth than some of her oeuvre in both its plot and its issues, as its titular heroine struggles with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15284062">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Echo by Francesca Lia Block is about a teenager named Echo who fights to stay beautiful in an ugly world. Her mother, whom her father calls &quot;the angel&quot; is more beautiful then she is, and her father, who died after a long sickness throughout the book, doesnt even know she exists with her mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76328569">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[      When I finished reading this entire book, I was pleased and anazed with what I read. I was so glad that I picked this book and not some other book. It was so interesting and surprising at the same time. Sometimes I told myself I can't stop gotta find out what happens next. I just couldn't stop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71575650">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The contrast between the dark, ugly world of LA and the poetic language with which it’s described intensifies and emphasizes its darkness, making it too real precisely because it is presented as part of a dreamland. With few descriptions of the actual place, showing it to the reader through the ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46939623">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful writing, but I didn't care as much for the story itself.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another YA novel that was recommended to me here on goodreads.<br/><br/>I'm not sure what to say about this one.  It seemed overly melodramatic and trite at points and much of the sex/drug use/anorexia seemed there for shock value (which it didn't provide) rather than a realistic part of the chara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63919368">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Each chapter was similiar to short story to me. I found this book a little boring because usually I would read a book with a straight plot line but each chapter seems to jump into a new topic and/or place. Also, almost each chapter introduced new characters and some didn't pop up again throughout th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44452475">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Part myth, part dream, and all enchantment, Francesca Lia Block has  blessed her glitter fans with another darkly fantastical tale of Los Angeles, &quot;a  city of magicians, movie queens, love-struck clowns.&quot; On this particular magic  carpet ride, Block follows the sad footsteps of Echo, a Hollywood baby born of a  dark-souled artist father and an effervescent mother whose impossible beauty  likens her to an angel. Echo, who believes that &quot;the only things I know how to  do well are shoplift, kiss and dance,&quot; feels excluded from her extraordinary  parents' perfect love for each other. So she sets out alone to try and fill the  cavernous void inside. During her travels, Echo meets a broken angel,  iron-pumping vampires, and the fairy daughter of a rock star. Are these figures  real? Echo believes in them, and so will the reader, as Block's melodious prose  leaves no choice but to accept them as true. Echo finally finds her own true  &quot;love-boy&quot; when she learns to look for love within instead of searching for  validation through her drugs of choice: food, sex, or doomed relationships. Told  in a myriad of voices that belong to Echo, her parents, lovers, and friends,  these interconnected short stories are a visual feast of intoxicatingly hip  images where the city of Los Angeles is as much a character as the outrageous  people that populate its movie-star mansions. Echo's story of salvation will  appeal not only to eyeliner-wearing club kids, but to any older teen who's ever  felt insecure and lonely in a world full of kissing couples and Hallmark  holidays. (Ages 13 and older) <em>--Jennifer Hubert</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is quiet good, sad, boring, interesting and yet cute. I might say that I could relate to the main character that is caught in many troubles. Yet like disliking her mother for such a beauty or being anorexic problems. Echo is caught in disaster, and hope for her parents to notice her, and s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68940696">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes: Francesca Lia Block's entirely predictable, but for me, entirely comforting outlook on the world as full of spirits and beauty and haunting and bones and gauze and glitter. Where love is hard to come by but when you find it it is magical. And where pain is worth something. It is just a thing th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75968190">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this book, but there were times when things didn't seem to make sense. It would go from Echo being the narrator, to someone else telling a story about someone else's life. It all ended up falling together, but it just annoyed me how it did that. The story itself was good though, even though i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49981972">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Echo is one of Ms. Block's longer stories. Its shifting storyline bounces back and forth across time and jumps between perspectives, always returning to first person when Echo is telling her own story. Mainly, Echo is a girl on a quest to find someone to love her as much as her parents loved each ot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1925496">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the book Echo, and it was a unique book to read. Echo is the main character, and she talks about her life, and the people that are in it. The people who she meets and know, also talk about their lives. The author is Francesca Lia Block.I think the her goal, was to write a book, that people wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71439873">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I believe that the only cool thing about this book was the way that she could see the histories of people when she kissed them. Besides that, it was just depressingly dramatic, and full of sex and drugs. I also probably was a little judgmental of the content, since I read it when I was around 11. No...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58151587">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[At first I was confused on the sudden jumps that the author made is certain seconds. Then the stories started to jumble together. Sometimes I would start to follow along track and even attempt to guess at what was going on, but others times it was just too confusing because not only the stories jump...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46716495">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the story of Echo and the interesting characters that impact her life...her mother, father, boyfriends, etc.  Instead of being one continuous story, the novel is set up as a different story each chapter.  Francesca Lia Block was my favorite author as a high school student, and I am excited t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79068477">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The prose was very beautiful, but that didn't save the book. It was pretty disjointed at times and thereby, hard to follow. And once again, like the Weetzie Bat books, there was no sense of responsibility. The kids could do drugs and get pregnant without experiencing ill effects. That is not life. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite Block book and one of my favorite books all around. It's amazing and I relate to it a lot. Basically, Block goes into that place within your head where dreams come from that reveal your soul. It's very abstract writing and it's beautiful.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Echo]]>
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    <![CDATA[Part myth, part dream, and all enchantment, Francesca Lia Block has  blessed her glitter fans with another darkly fantastical tale of Los Angeles, &quot;a  city of magicians, movie queens, love-struck clowns.&quot; On this particular magic  carpet ride, Block follows the sad footsteps of Echo, a Hollywood baby born of a  dark-souled artist father and an effervescent mother whose impossible beauty  likens her to an angel. Echo, who believes that &quot;the only things I know how to  do well are shoplift, kiss and dance,&quot; feels excluded from her extraordinary  parents' perfect love for each other. So she sets out alone to try and fill the  cavernous void inside. During her travels, Echo meets a broken angel,  iron-pumping vampires, and the fairy daughter of a rock star. Are these figures  real? Echo believes in them, and so will the reader, as Block's melodious prose  leaves no choice but to accept them as true. Echo finally finds her own true  &quot;love-boy&quot; when she learns to look for love within instead of searching for  validation through her drugs of choice: food, sex, or doomed relationships. Told  in a myriad of voices that belong to Echo, her parents, lovers, and friends,  these interconnected short stories are a visual feast of intoxicatingly hip  images where the city of Los Angeles is as much a character as the outrageous  people that populate its movie-star mansions. Echo's story of salvation will  appeal not only to eyeliner-wearing club kids, but to any older teen who's ever  felt insecure and lonely in a world full of kissing couples and Hallmark  holidays. (Ages 13 and older) <em>--Jennifer Hubert</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very happy I came across this book (it was falling off the shelf). This book kind of reminded me of the 90s. It was also a mix of hyper realism and slight fantasy. I wasn't really sure who was real or not... I think a second read would be fun. ]]></body>
    
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