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  <title><![CDATA[A History of Violence]]></title>
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  <default-description>It was just another quiet day at McKenna's Diner -- until a couple of wanted killers walked in looking for trouble. Instead, they got bullets, and Tom McKenna got to be an instant media celebrity. That got him a lot of attention from some people he thought he'd escaped long ago. The kind of people who never forget a face -- even after twenty years...

Now Tom must confront a group of cold-blooded mobsters intent on settling the score. As much as he tries to deny it, he's a man with a history of violence -- and with the lives of his family hanging in the balance, he'll do anything to make sure his secret past stays buried...forever.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1997</original-publication-year>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I watched the movie before I even realized it exists as a graphic novel. The two differ extremely. The movie took the main character Tom, a few aspects of plot, and moved in an entirely different direction. I'm glad for this, because it was more believable--I don't think it would've translated well ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38789892">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bukunya…udah baca.<br/>Filmnya…belum nonton.<br/><br/>Kekerasan tidak hanya diawali dari kekerasan, tapi kadang dimulai dari suatu kebaikan. Niat Joey yang ingin membantu neneknya malah membuatnya terlibat dalam kekerasan yang tidak ada akhirnya. Ketika dua buronan kejam menyerang di suatu ko...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38780125">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never got around to seeing the movie made out of this book, so I had thought that I would read the graphic novel that it was based on.  This was my first &quot;graphic novel&quot; that I read and I had a hard time getting used to the black-and-white visual style of the book.  It showed amazing ski...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44605617">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazingly quick read, I finished it in just over an hour while waiting to board a flight.<br/><br/>The story was a cliche revenge story of a man whose past catches up with him. Perhaps the only really compelling thing about this was that it was based on a true story. The characters and the dialogu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61752534">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really 4.5<br/><br/>I read this because I saw the movie.  It starts out the same--nice small-town diner-owner foils a robbery from some really violent guys.  Achieves a measure of fame.  Which attracts some mob guys from New York who think that he's someone who did them wrong a long time ago.  In ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42609042">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20724516">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read A History of Violence over the course of the weekend.  I typically read graphic novels in one sitting if I can, but this was a novel I had to take in smaller bites.  The introduction gives a sporadic account of how John Wagner came up with the idea for the novel's underlying threads.  Without...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20724516">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19044416">
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    <body><![CDATA[I became interested in this graphic novel after seeing the film version by David Cronenberg.  I enjoyed the movie and wanted to see where it all began so I picked the original graphic novel.  The story begins with an attempted robbery in a small-town diner owned by Tom McKenna, who manages to kill o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19044416">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1075582">
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A brisk read, and I'm still not convinced John Wagner is anything more than a consistent journeyman writer. However, the escalation of the violent acts, coupled with the reality the book takes care to ground the reader in, really pays off with the final shock. I'm not convinced that it bears thinkin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1075582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56065285">
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    <body><![CDATA[Though this is a solid story, it's a standard one of haunted pasts and mob revenge. Tom McKenna is the congenial owner of a diner in Nowhere, U.S.A., a man who revels in his family small-town life—a life full of softball games, cookouts, and church. <br/><br/>But this life is shattered when two ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56065285">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[That dude toward the end was gross. But I do enjoy the occasional chainsaw accident. I thought this was pretty good. The art was super sketchy and I did not love it. I still can't figure out exactly what happened to dude's eye. The end of this was better and more complete than the end of the movie, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50355868">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47189446">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Graphic novel yang pernah difilmkan dengan judul yang sama.  Heran, ternyata saya belum pernah nonton.  Tertarik beli karena penasaran bagaimana kekerasan model mafia digambarkan dalam bentuk komik.<br/><br/>Baca buku ini serasa berada di dalam filmnya.  Sekali baca gak pingin berhenti.  Tapi ini ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47189446">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50908156">
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    <body><![CDATA[can you ever really escape your past? much less polished and tidy than the movie...and it's better that way. there's no glorified past of being the brother and enforcer to a crime boss in this. just a kid who tried to make some money and a name for himself the wrong way. gritty and violent. it lives...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50908156">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22553085">
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    <body><![CDATA[First, I was surprised to realize that the movie adaptation of this book only tells about 1/3rd of the story, so if you are happening to read this review and have only seen the movie, you might want to read the book to find out the other 2/3rds of the story.<br/><br/>Second, I liked this story qui...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22553085">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The concept behind the book is a very interesting one. We live in such a violent society that the violence inside of the book isn't really that shocking anymore. This story is a character study into what a small decision can do to change a person's life entirely. I was not too fond of the artistic s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24125679">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Visually very cool. The introduction Wagner rights is almost more intriguing than the plot of the book. The film version manages to flush the characters out more but leaves out the human element of the main character. Worth checking out if you can get it at your local library. At the very least look...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41876356">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A graphic novel written by John Wagner and drawn by Vince Locke, A History of Violence is a run of the mill comic book expanded to book length size. I’m not sure what Cronenberg does with it in his film to deepen the book’s shallow tale or, indeed, if he does deepen it all. But there is no myste...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13644762">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 is the first graphic novel (or comic for that matter) I'd ever read.  It was a really clever story and the drawings were awesome.  Any book with drawings is better.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of the rare exceptions to the &quot;Book is Better than the Movie&quot; rule.  Some of the art was really cool, but mostly the last half of the story was just silly.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book pretty much in one sitting, even though I was intending on reading only part of it. It is a very gripping and engaging account. The simple line art matches the gritty style of the story very well. I have not seen the movie that was made of this, but I think I would like to see it ou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14710674">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good graphic novel. I was smugly satisfied to find that the original work did not include the gratuitous rape scene that, to me, ruined the movie.]]></body>
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