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  <title><![CDATA[Forever]]></title>
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  <default_description>This widely praised bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains...forever. Through the eyes of young Cormac O'Connor--granted immortality as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan--we watch New York grow from a tiny settlement on the tip of an untamed wilderness to the thriving metropolis of today. And through Cormac's remarkable adventures in both love and war, we come to know all the city's buried secrets--the way it has been shaped by greed, race, and waves of immigration, by the unleashing of enormous human energies, and, above all, by hope.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2002</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pete Hamill]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 02 17:18:55 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 02 17:42:35 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I generally look over other people's reviews to refresh myself before I add a book I read a long time ago. I was genuinely surprised to see how many people hated this book. It seems like people either got it and loved it (like me), or didn't get it and simply hated it.<br/><br/>Admittedly, the sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39149613">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10239238">
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    <name><![CDATA[Andrew]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Italy]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 10 16:39:25 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 18 08:18:09 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a truly great read, filled with history, mysticism, humanity, and wonder.  The protagonist is Cormac O'Connor who was born in Ireland during the 1700's I believe.  A sequence of events unfolds and he is forced to travel to an infant New York City where he eventually saves an African sla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10239238">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10239238]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="6600596">
    <user id="402153">
    <name><![CDATA[Meredith]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 22 08:34:14 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 22 13:34:45 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Conceptually I liked this book, though it lost something in the execution. Exploring New York through the eyes of a single character *is* interesting, but in order to do it justice the book needed about 1,000 more pages (at least!).  If this novel was a five book series--told more slowly--it would h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6600596">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58197960">
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    <name><![CDATA[Cassy]]></name>
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 02 11:49:10 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 22 12:22:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Part of my disappointment in Pete Hamill’s “Forever” is probably based on the fact that I had different expectations when I began reading. There was an extremely misleading quote on the back cover comparing the book favorably to &quot;Lord of the Rings&quot; and &quot;Harry Potter&quot;. I als...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58197960">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="30039134">
    <user id="504184">
    <name><![CDATA[Kim]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[all new yorkers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 13 09:55:39 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 13 10:12:56 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had me from the first page. It starts in Ireland in the 1700s and takes us on a fantastic journey ending in New York in 2001. Through the protagonist's eyes we see the humble beginnings of New York City in its infancy and watch as it transforms over the centuries to the mighty metropolis i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30039134">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20886535">
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    <name><![CDATA[Gregory]]></name>
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 24 09:31:24 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 24 09:32:26 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was not the book that I expected it to be.  Every plot summary of this novel describes it as a history of New York City as experienced by a man who is granted immortality only so long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan.  Granted, that does happen, but first you have to slog through an a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20886535">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="10807054">
    <user id="134990">
    <name><![CDATA[Kristen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 21 06:35:29 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 24 12:35:06 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The idea of a first-person account of the whole history of Manhattan was really intriguing to me, so I was really excited to read this book, and assumed that the whole  &quot;you're immortal but you can't leave Manhattan&quot; thing was just a weird plot device in order to make this first-person nar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10807054">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58874284">
    <user id="2395835">
    <name><![CDATA[Jen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 08 11:03:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 08 14:05:53 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been going through a homesick sort of thing lately and this book was like a drug. It's historical fiction that charts the history of New York City from circa 1740 through 2001 as lived and experienced by one main character. (You'll have to suspend your disbelief regarding the necessary fantasy ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58874284">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58874284]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="3954080">
    <user id="246328">
    <name><![CDATA[Dan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Glen Rock, NJ]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 02 00:29:33 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 14 21:53:37 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like Hamill from A Snow in August, but this novel was awful, i only finished it to see how he tied it together.  The plot too ambitious, you can't pack the history of new york into a story of one man.  Hamill can't properly end it and does an awful job of foreshadowing the 9/11 attacks.  The towers ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3954080">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3954080]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="2995691">
    <user id="179200">
    <name><![CDATA[Rowena]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 12 13:50:57 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 12 13:53:19 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel like Pete Hamil could have done SO much more with this plot- A man who lives forever so long as he stays on the island of Manhattan?? I mean come on, PH touched on maybe 3 major New York events and I feel like he skipped an entire century's worth of news. I don't expect him to write about eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2995691">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71407894">
    <user id="32418">
    <name><![CDATA[Michaela]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 16 08:02:56 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 21 15:49:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.<br/><br/>The ending seemed a bit rushed, but it may be that I both did and didn't want to know how it came out in the end.<br/><br/>It's amazing that Hamill apparently re-wrote the entire ending after 9/11 -- I can't imagine how he could have ended it before that terrible tragedy.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71407894">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39066272">
    <user id="1729113">
    <name><![CDATA[Darla]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Kansas City, KS]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 01 17:35:24 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 01 17:38:10 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book.  To be honest, didn't love the ending so much, but I just soaked up the history of New York.  Why is that?  I have never been to New York, but I love reading about the history of that city.  When Wall street was actually a wall to keep out Indians...when the Dutch ran the place, s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39066272">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52167640">
    <user id="1431761">
    <name><![CDATA[Karen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Apr 10 05:05:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 10 05:12:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book.  It kept me engaged throughout its 400-or-so pages.  And I brushed up on some of my Revolutionary War history, as part of it takes place in colonial New York.  If you have the last name &quot;Warren&quot; you'll find this book interesting in another way, as that family expands thr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52167640">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39785898">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jenni]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 10 10:19:44 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 17 17:55:06 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am living in the bones and ashes of immigrants and ideals. Forever is the story of everyman, with different details. Beginning in Ireland in 1730ish with the persecution of Catholics and those who belive in the Old Religion, Cormac discovers the many layers of his true identity, hidden due to the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39785898">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="42767851">
    <user id="1740420">
    <name><![CDATA[Christina]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 12 05:15:29 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 29 16:23:08 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Forever is a historical novel that traces the life of the narrator, Cormac O’Connor, from the 1700s outside of Belfast, Ireland to the fall of the Twin Towers in New York City. It’s beautifully written - descriptive and vivid in a way that you can feel, see, smell, touch, and taste New York City...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42767851">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44363823">
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    <name><![CDATA[Cheryl]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Jan 25 21:05:36 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 25 21:08:27 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe the worst book I have ever read entirely?  When it was picked for bookclub, I believed that I had started it before, and never finished it, but thought I would give it another try.  It sounds interesting, a cursed/magic life that lasts and lasts and witnesses how Manhattan grows and changes. A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44363823">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book I love re-reading and doing it slowly. I feel the author must have loved writing it. I have visited Inwood Park in NY and imagined hiding in the woods 200yrs ago. I read this some time ago and as my memory goes I remember the story and the setting but forget the character's names. But...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58068144">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>I've put off writing about this book, I loved it so much and I'm not sure I can really do it justice by writing about it without giving away the magic of the book.</p><br/><p> <em>Forever</em> begins Ireland during the 1740s. Cormac O'Connor is a boy who learns that he is half Irish, half Jewish in a time and plac...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57179209">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in hardback when it first came out. Found this copy at the Trident Literacy Assoc booksale. There were parts I liked bery much- parts I got impatient with, as I recall. The first 1/2 of the book really grabbed me, then I hit a lull, but by the end, I was right back there with Cormac.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41100831">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book, but not a lot.  It is very episodic.  The first third of the book foreshadows the immortality but doesn't get to it.  It feels like that story was written and then the immortality added, the foreshadowing retro-fitted.<br/><br/>Many of the subsequent episodes just don't work for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55356736">more...</a>]]></body>
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