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  <title><![CDATA[The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.]]></title>
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  <default-description>A satirical fable with a rootless and helpless accountant as the protagonist. Alone in his apartment, he spends all his nights and weekends playing an intricate baseball game of his own invention. The author has won the William Faulkner Award and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award.</default-description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert Coover]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Aug 17 14:11:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm eager to discuss this book primarily because of how much I disliked it.<br/><br/>Moments ago, I summarized it for my husband, and he said, &quot;That sounds interesting. I'd never read it, but if you were stoned and had that idea for a book, it'd be pretty exciting.&quot;<br/><br/>That's the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67643086">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[AGH! Coover could've done so much with this. There's riper psychodrama to be had on the message boards in any ESPN fantasy league, where you regularly get unravelings -- psychological, cultural, grammatical -- that'd have even Frederick Exley putting down the bottle and backing slowly out of the aby...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51355078">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 19 19:31:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 22 17:15:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's difficult for me sometimes to read novels that deal frankly, honestly, and brutally with the inner workings of the mind, especially the disturbed mind, because often all I'm thinking about the whole time is how much the obviously disturbed character's ways of dealing with the world are so much ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68119654">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Basically, this is a pre-D&amp;D roleplaying geekout disguised as a quite elegant baseball novel.  The sports writing is stellar but the plot seems to plod pretty predictably along, and frankly I didn't get the ending at all...!  I thought there'd be nine chapters because of all the stuff about numerolo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68865347">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75225861">
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 21 05:54:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 01 11:41:05 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, first things first, I don't give a damn about baseball. This book probably would have meant more to me if I did, but I enjoyed it a lot nonetheless. It's too bad my baseball-loving father doesn't give a damn about experimental novels-maybe between the two of us we would have been able to make ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75225861">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50875234">
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's an interesting vista into a lonely, aging man's self-identity via the multitudinous, detailed, competing, conflicting personalities he creates to populate his imaginary baseball world.  Ultimately I couldn't get beyond the feeling (shared by the main character) that the drama of these imaginary...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50875234">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65411400">
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    <body><![CDATA[Never have I read a postmodern novel where all the girders of structure fit together so seamlessly. The main narrative (J. Henry and his sad-sack sex partner) and the roto-league number crunching, which in turn moves the sub-narrative of the fake players' real personalities (a narrative far more sin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65411400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20914509">
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  <read_at>Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lonely middle-aged guy creates an all-consuming fantasy baseball league...in 1968. Sure, table top simulation games were around back then, but Henry Waugh takes it an Internet level of obsessiveness. This has been on my reading list for some time and it is tough to find--had to go the interlibrary l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20914509">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47553448">
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great concept and well executed. Once you get inside Henry's head it's difficult to get out. His creation &quot;The UBA&quot; has it's own history and it's own time, and not to mention a rich population of absurd baseball stereotypes. The protagonist's mental track of a completely imagined history...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47553448">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41173616">
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    <body><![CDATA[Another of those modern novels I was introduced to in 1985, before which I had only thought of reading literature as work. For about three years I think this was my favorite novel. And the baseball doesn't hurt!]]></body>
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    <review id="54008696">
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    <body><![CDATA[Really strange book about a guy who creates a fantasy baseball game, only to be hugely impacted by it. (I won't ruin it for you, and if I say much more I would.) It is a compelling read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's not that it's bad, but I had really expected to like it more than I did.]]></body>
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    <review id="71439427">
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good until the post-modern shtick toward the end.]]></body>
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    <review id="26423914">
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    <body><![CDATA[Pure grotesque writing!  J. Henry Waugh becomes consumed by a baseball fantasy league, an imaginary world (unlike today's computerized leagues for betting) where the roll of dice can end the careers of people he has created and nurtured for nearly a half a century.  They're not imaginary to Henry - ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26423914">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36363473">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What shocked me, after hearing about Coover, was that the plot of the book isn't the star here, nor the characters.  Rather, the charm of the book is almost entirely in the structure, which is remarkably playful, complex, and nuanced.  I was expecting some sprawling Pynchonesque thing, but instead I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36363473">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7838832">
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    <body><![CDATA[this is about a man who invents a baseball league and plays games with it using dice. the league is in its 57th season i believe, so this is a long-term obsession. it's pretty impressive in its attention to detail about this fake league/world, but i think i admired it more than i really got into it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7838832">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29647775">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book takes you into the mind of J. Henry Waugh in such a captivating way that you begin to believe in the world he created--but like we learned from Willy Loman--your dreams can destroy you.<br/><br/>This is a book that--baseball fan or not--everyone should read once.<br/><br/>~Becky, Book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29647775">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 29 22:27:48 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Apr 26 18:15:17 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 29 22:27:48 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked it, except I thought the last chapter and ending were extremely disjointed and anticlimactic.  I wish Coover had ended it differently.  But still, it was a decent read.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Oct 14 14:50:29 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 28 21:19:17 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps my favorite of Coover's books.  About a guy who develops a dice baseball game that's so statistically accurate that the line between reality and fantasy becomes blurred.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 28 09:24:46 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 28 09:26:35 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not really about baseball, more of an allegory of thought within the proprietor of the association.  Mercury in Retrograde.......!  I am not him.]]></body>
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