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  <title><![CDATA[The Pact]]></title>
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  <default_description> Until the phone calls came at 3:00 A.M. on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily has been shot to death by her beloved and devoted Chris as part of an apparent suicide pact -- leaving two devastated families stranded in the dark and dense predawn, desperate for answers about an unthinkable act and the children they never really knew.</default_description>
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  <original_title>The Pact: A Love Story</original_title>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first Jodi Picoult book that I have read. I admit that she is a good writer and I found myself unable to put the book down; however, I felt that there was a lot lacking to make this a solid GOOD book. In my opinion, though this book was supposed to be a drama/love story, it severely lack...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20912366">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jun 11 11:16:17 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this better than My Sister's Keeper as a whole, although I have some of the same complaints about it.  This author is a master of making you believe in a story that makes exactly no sense and making you care about characters who behave like retards.  If I thought about any of it for very lon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23110745">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 20 09:24:57 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am probably the only person in the world who HATED this book with such a white hot hate that you almost wonder if it was just the opposite. I'm reviewing it for the sake of Lorelle since it is the book that drew me into the lovely book club that I survived (or survived me) for several fun years.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3317139">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[How did three of my friends end up reviewing this book on the same day, especially when at least two of them didn't read it that recently?  Did I miss a review contest or something?<br/><br/>Anyway, I couldn't resist adding my opinion to the pile.  This was my first Jodi Picoult book, and as I rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/124698">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I knew the premise of this book was teenage suicide but I still found it very disturbing. As a mother I could not imagine anything more devasting then the loss of your child, by whatever means. <br/><br/>Picoult's sequence of events was intersting - the timeline moved back and forth so that the re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19934699">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;He kissed her so gently she wondered if she had imagined it.&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devestation. A hell.&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9020697">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My stepsister left this book for me after she visited a few weeks ago.  I have to say, I think it was very well-written and it certainly does suck you in, but it was so depressing I couldn't read it fully, and had to skim large swaths.<br/><br/>Basically these two teenage lovers enter into a suici...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4131099">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[***Not sure about spoilers here. I think I danced around things pretty well, but you may want reconsider your decision to read further in case I messed up.***<br/><br/>I am a bit disappointed. I was so close to loving this novel and its author, and I really did want to love them, but the denouemen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68585824">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jan 26 10:22:59 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book about the struggles of being a teenager.  I read this with my youth book club.  They loved it, but you know teens, they like the dark stuff.<br/><br/>The Pact: A Love Story, by Jodi Picoult<br/><br/> <br/><br/>We read this book as a part of our high school book club.  By far, it was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13447151">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9789753">
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 30 20:44:41 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 30 20:44:47 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[After you've read a few Jodi Picoult books, you come to expect certain things. A compelling, flashpoint topic (teen suicide, stigmata, school shootings, sexual abuse, etc.) that rips a small New England community apart. Courtroom drama. Finely wrought family dynamics. A maverick lawyer, a quirky jud...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9789753">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39305998">
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  <date_added>Thu Dec 04 12:37:28 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 07 10:13:22 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Often times as readers we feel &quot;set&quot; in our ways when it comes to reading.  I have patrons that come into the library and will take one look at a book and say, &quot;I don't read books with violence in them&quot; or &quot;Women authors aren't really my thing&quot;.  I can't blame them, but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39305998">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[OMG this book drove me CRAZY!!!  But I loved it...lol<br/><br/>Let's see...where do I start? <br/>I was frustrated with all the characters for different things...<br/><br/>Melanie...for burning Emily's diary, which may have helped with the trial, and also maybe she should have told the police a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36492026">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Oct 09 13:39:45 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book based on recommendations from friends.  I already loved Jodi Picoult from My Sister's Keeper, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes.  Yet again, she did not disappoint.  <br/><br/>I don't know what to say about the book without sounding hokey...it is a great story about teen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7492090">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, as my favorite of Jodi's, stands in for the whole Picoult oeuvre, which I read mostly over the course of one summer and which is the proving ground for the split in my reading personality -- snob vs. storylover.  Picoult is sentimental, always takes on at least one Issue, and pretty much ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18999606">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll admit that Picoult can tell a story and keep me interested, but she has some seriously annoying writing tics that almost made me stop reading.  Some examples: &quot;...,' he said softly&quot;; &quot;...,' she said thickly&quot;; and (my favorite) &quot;...,' he said, his eyes shining.&quot;  Bl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37105708">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20500979">
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    <name><![CDATA[Erik]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed May 21 06:20:27 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed May 21 06:20:27 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had a few moments I enjoyed, mostly end-of-chapter character introspection, but overall I didn't care for it. It seemed that all of the big, dramatic scenes involved circumstances that were too convenient. Actually, a lot of things seemed too convenient and not always consistent with the c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20500979">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite JP book, but still an interesting read. I picked it up at EdMcKay without even reading the back, that’s how much I like Jodi’s writing, but this one is a little different than her others that I’ve read so far. It’s about a pair of teenage lovers, and what starts out looking l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1101247">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.  This story was intense.  Had me on the edge of my seat until the very end.  I'm gonna say this is my favorite Picoult book so far.  And a great book club choice - can't wait to discuss at our meeting!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a hard book to read because I could identify with both the pain of the parents and the pain of losing the love of my life (not from experience of course but of how hard it would be).  <br/><br/>At the end of the book, I read her inspiration for writing the book and in it she stated that t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37148926">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only reason I'm giving this book three stars instead of two is because I fell in love with the main character, Chris Harte.  He was well-adjusted, loyal, and genuinely in love with his girlfriend Emily.  Within the first few pages of the novel (or if you take the time to skim the blurb on the ba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13681196">more...</a>]]></body>
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