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  <title><![CDATA[Significant Others (Tales of the City Series, Vol. 5)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&quot;An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco.&quot; &lt;BR&gt;--&lt;I&gt;New York Times Book Review&lt;/I&gt;  &lt;P&gt;Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer and the world's most beautiful fat woman. &lt;I&gt;Significant Others&lt;/I&gt; is Armistead Maupin's cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship, and sexual nostalgia. &lt;P&gt; &quot;Comedy in its most classical form...some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read.&quot; &lt;BR&gt; --The Guardian &lt;P&gt; &quot;The color is wonderful, the line bold and flowing. It is also wise, witty, loving and caring about the foibles and frailties we all seem to have.&quot; &lt;BR&gt; --David Hockney</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1987</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Armistead Maupin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 06 20:42:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 08 21:36:08 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[First off, I was hesitant to read this installment due to the blurb on the back, which made it sound just dreadful about a women-only, men-only clash in the Redwoods. But it was NOTHING like the blurb, it was Barbary goes up-river, with the characters we know and love going to the wilderness. I actu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55220670">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65292273">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 28 12:26:43 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 28 12:32:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have enjoyed this series...and there are three more to go!  They are a fun, fast read--and I get very attached to some of the characters, but I sometimes find it frustrating to read about the ones I DON'T care about.  Like Booter.  I really get annoyed with Booter.  I don't like how he calls his s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65292273">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 04 19:05:07 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 04 19:09:36 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a getaway for San Franciscans, it was good to read the Russian River in all its far-flung diversity incorporated into the Tales series. About halfway through the book, it dawned on me that Booter had a small part in the first book of the series. At that point my visual image of him changed from s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45414053">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat May 30 18:14:17 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 30 18:18:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Best in the series so far.  Though these books are considered &quot;chronicles of the AIDS epidemic&quot; which they are, they are so much more than that.  Great stories.  It had been a couple of years since I'd read vol.4.  Hilarious descriptions of the culture of women's music festivals!  I like h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57896402">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="10495131">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dannii (lilbob1980)]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 16 03:39:35 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 28 00:55:52 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Significant Others - Armistead Maupin.<br/><br/>Like usual Maupin left me laughing and reading this book incredibly quickly.   It was great to have DeDe as a more prominent character as she has always been in the background (apart from Further Tales, but that was a very specific story).  It ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10495131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68830355">
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    <name><![CDATA[Suzanne]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Kalamazoo, MI]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 25 09:56:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 25 09:56:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a friend's mother would say, &quot;It's a little bit ridiculous.&quot; I laughed out loud reading this, although some of it felt over the top. The other factor is Maupin's continued discussion of AIDS -- some of the most compelling scenes are written about getting tested, waiting for the results,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68830355">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56456980">
    <user id="1860243">
    <name><![CDATA[Stig]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 18 03:35:25 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 20 03:47:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm on a roll with this series right now. Focus is more and more on Michael Tolliver as AIDS is becoming a serious issue and causes pain and anxiety among the characters. There are hints (more than that, actually) of unresolved conflicts between some of the main characters, and I'm looking forward t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56456980">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55310453">
    <user id="794912">
    <name><![CDATA[Jaclyn]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Walnut Creek, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu May 07 16:55:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 17 11:14:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I undertook reading the Tales of the City series when I discovered I was moving to SF and I wanted to know more about the city before I lived there (neighborhoods, street names, overall character, etc...).  I found all of the books enjoyable and the characters interesting and likeable.  I began to t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55310453">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74338881">
    <user id="1783086">
    <name><![CDATA[Paul]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 12 18:53:35 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 12 18:54:44 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The humor in this one really appealed to me and I felt more of the magic of the first three books.  We spend a lot of time away from Barbary Lane, but the journey is fun.]]></body>
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    <review id="44328091">
    <user id="699590">
    <name><![CDATA[Davie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 25 16:12:12 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Feb 17 06:22:25 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A nice, quick read.  There isn't much to say, really; this is book five in the Tales of the City series, so you've got to be pretty invested in these characters to make it this far.  I enjoyed that this one was set in 1987, a year in which I was both alive and slightly more cognizant of culture and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44328091">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41860407">
    <user id="1863425">
    <name><![CDATA[Sara]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Vancouver, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 04 13:01:41 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 04 13:01:41 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I re-read this series about every 2 years or so. Never ceases to make me laugh or cry. I love all these characters. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41860407]]></url>
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    <review id="70787418">
    <user id="1244504">
    <name><![CDATA[Shigekuni]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Bonn, Germany]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[Significant Others (The Tales of the City Series, V. 5) by Armistead Maupin (1994)]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70787418]]></url>
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    <review id="46808695">
    <user id="2048099">
    <name><![CDATA[Stephen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fort Lauderdale, FL]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[see my review of this series under &quot;Further Tales of the City&quot;<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="8576600">
    <user id="116025">
    <name><![CDATA[Writerlibrarian]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Canada]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 02 13:17:52 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 04 04:36:02 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the 80's with all that implies. AIDS, Reagan, the right getting back power. Our heroes have grown up and in their mid thirties and early forties they are still making some dubious choices like Brian and Mary Ann, experiencing the new order AIDS has imposed on their lives, Michael alone tries...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8576600">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15620770">
    <user id="908367">
    <name><![CDATA[Heidi]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Wilmette, IL]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 17 08:48:46 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 22 09:18:29 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So here's the deal with these Tales Of The City books.  They are stunning.  Armistead Maupin is such an amazing story teller.  I write this with tears in my eyes.  It is almost like--no scratch that--I, in fact, do feel honored to get to read these books.  This one had some slow parts for me, but ul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15620770">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61327572">
    <user id="2465602">
    <name><![CDATA[Linda]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Culpeper, VA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jun 30 06:03:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Characters continue to develop, but the story itself was just ok.]]></body>
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    <review id="43262224">
    <user id="1957649">
    <name><![CDATA[Robert]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[First read in 1987.]]></body>
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    <review id="50519387">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, despite being over 300 pages long, only took me five hours to read. I enjoyed it's simplicity. It was kind of like reading a child's book, except the plot dealt with lesbian camps, AIDS, and the Bohemian Grove (which I guess is like the Illuminati or something, lots of powerful men campin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20479495">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have now read all of the Tales of the City series.  It has taken me 13 years, and I've read them completely out of order.  Some day, I will read them all in order, and make much more sense of them.  Of course, they stand alone well enough to be engaging.  In capturing the essence of the time and p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23047786">more...</a>]]></body>
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