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  <title><![CDATA[The Homeless Channel]]></title>
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  <default-description>When Darcy Shaw starts a 24-hour cable network called The Homeless Channel, she starts to wonder if she can really save the world by putting it on TV.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2007</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>The Homeless Channel</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Matt Silady]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Aug 29 13:49:26 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome book. If you like Bendis's art in his early work, ala Torso and if you like Aaron Sorkin-like dialogue this book is definitely for you. <br/><br/>Matt is also extremely helpful to lost New Yorkers who have no idea what they're doing with the BART system.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 28 18:29:25 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 28 20:39:41 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kinda weird giving my own novel a star rating. ; ) <br/><br/>If anyone's interested in sampling the first chapter of the story, I invite them to check it out right here: [http://www.mattsilady.com] There's also some behind-the-scenes type stuff for those (like me) who are into that sort of thing. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5255879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5908696">
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    <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've known <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/689269.Matt_Silady">Matt Silady</a> for about ten years; this is his first graphic novel, and it's fantastic.  The story is of a woman who starts up a cable network completely built around the topic of the homeless in Chicago.  There are standard cable shows that have their intent tweaked towards the subject at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5908696">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5679768">
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    <name><![CDATA[Allen]]></name>
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    <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 04 20:25:35 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 04 20:31:16 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of The Homeless Channel is current and edgy. The characters seem very real, and the story unfolds at a slow yet interesting pace. Once I started reading it I couldn't stop till I was done. That to me is the true test of a great story. The art was also excellent. I had picked up the book at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5679768">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4586749">
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    <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting concept that gets side-tracked a little too often for my tastes. There's a line towards the end where the main character says she's not sure what she wants The Homeless Channel to be; I kind of wonder if that's what Matt was going through as has we writing this book.<br/><br/>It's w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4586749">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3165232">
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    <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 17 07:01:33 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thoughtprovoking.  I enjoyed the characters, who were complex humans with idealism that often clashed with the realistically difficult issues involved in the area of homelessness and social justice.  The art is simple, but fits nicely, and the main romantic relationship is framed well within the con...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3165232">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21748590">
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    <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really solid debut graphic novel from a talent to watch out for in the future. Characters speak and act in realistic ways, and while the graphic novel sometimes seems to lose focus (is it a condemnation of reality tv, or a look at modern romance, or straight social commentary) etc, I can mostly writ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21748590">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70273835">
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    <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[  I was slightly disappointed by this.  The art, having a photographic style, was different relative to other graphic novels, and added a cold and bleak atmosphere to the overall setting.  However, I found it to be flat as in having an effect of rendering the characters as emotionally dead and gener...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70273835">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70260848">
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 06 11:40:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 06 12:00:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like the idea of this book, the concept and its tackling of a social issue that hasn't been much addressed in the graphic medium. The narrative occasionally lost its way but was pretty good on the whole. I think most of my issues ended up being with the artwork. Some of the frames had the look of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70260848">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5894587">
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    <name><![CDATA[jonathan]]></name>
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    <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 08 08:29:57 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 08 08:33:15 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Warm characterizations save an ambitious but overwrought comic.  The ideas are halfway there, but the whole thing feels loosely-sketched, like a second or third draft.  The innovative production method (photographing actors, reducing the photos to line are by hand) sounds appealling, but turns out t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5894587">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14702960">
  <user id="159602">
    <name><![CDATA[Jamie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Portland, OR]]></location>        
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    <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 06 02:17:26 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 06 02:23:01 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Full disclosure: I've met Matt Silady a couple of times and found him to be a pretty nice guy. He also wrote a kind review of a comic book I wrote right here on GoodReads. That said, my intention was to say nothing at all here if I read <em>The Homeless Channel</em> and didn't like it, taking the diplomatic ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14702960">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="21602794">
  <user id="202716">
    <name><![CDATA[Jen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Charlottesville, VA]]></location>        
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    <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 04 19:34:54 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 04 19:40:13 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So...two girls walk into a cable station and say, &quot;We want to bring attention to the problem of homelessness in this country by devoting an entire cable network to the issue, called The Homeless Channel.  Who's in?&quot;  Remarkably, they get what they asked for.  As depressing as this story co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21602794">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10619188">
  <user id="536566">
    <name><![CDATA[Robin]]></name>
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    <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 18 07:04:19 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 18 07:06:58 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[his graphic novel is very interesting because the artwork is done in a style that's unlike any other book I've seen. The story revolves around a network on TV called The Homeless Channel which uses its programming to show the plight of the homeless. The writer is a former middle school teacher who n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10619188">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47989518">
  <user id="324600">
    <name><![CDATA[Siri]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Venice, CA]]></location>        
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    <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 02 07:22:14 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 02 07:22:57 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyable quick graphic novel.]]></body>
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    <review id="69091532">
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    <name><![CDATA[Emma]]></name>
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    <rating>2</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 27 09:27:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[left me feeling unsatisfied.]]></body>
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    <review id="5153025">
  <user id="76042">
    <name><![CDATA[Emilia]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></location>        
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    <rating>2</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[dumb liberal kids i guess?]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 26 21:00:53 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[euhhhhh<br/>i think it was a bad weekend for comic books.<br/>there was like a negative amount of plot structure in this book, and the comic book style was basically black-and-whited photographic, which in some cases might be ok, but in this case it just made me say &quot;why didn't you spend the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5153025">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8786916">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kyla]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Durham, NC]]></location>        
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    <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Nov 07 07:08:10 -0800 2007</date_added>
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