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    <body><![CDATA[i have very mixed feelings about this book.<br/><br/>1.  the <em>point</em> of this book is a good one.  i believe that she is trying to make us realize how important it is to be yourself and not to live for other people and their impressions of you.  she tries to make the reader think about oppression (sp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77242888">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fiction for fun here. The story takes place in well-to-do Virginia society. The protagonist, a successful art gallery owner, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. She writes a series of letters to closest friends and family, divulging her innermost feelings--and the fact that she is gay. She tells each...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42175276">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book starts out very funny &amp; engaging.  The setting gives an amusing peek into the subculture of the moneyed classes in the racist &amp; homophobic southern US.  Nearly every character is a stranger to her or his own self, living out a societally proscribed façade of a life.  Or heroine, after a b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40399908">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was kind of surprised how not good this book was. I mean... Rita Mae Brown! Setting aside the fact that the book hasn't aged well as far as the place of LBGTQ people in American society, it was still deeply flawed in spite of its promising premise. The characters were cardboard cutouts (especially...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63863242">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I stopped reading at about 25 pages from the end, and I can usually make it through <em>almost</em> any title if I've made it that far. Sadly not so with this one, which I got out of the free box at the library (and now I know why it was weeded!). <br/><br/>All was fine (funny even) until it nose dived wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54778102">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     Shit, I had certainly heard of the author through reading feminist books, so when I saw this at Goodwill, I picked it up.<br/>      Apparently everyone but me knew she wasn't a rablle-rouser anymore and this book is absurd. Greek Gods come to earth to teach a single professional woman how to g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40594751">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i found this book to laugh a loud funny! the premise is that a woman named fraiser is told she has a few days left to live...cancer and all and her business partner tells her to write letters to her family and dear friends and tell them what she thinks and feels. Fraiser goes all out with the letter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8290395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this book, the lead character does something I think we all should do.  Be honest with each other about ourselves, and it shouldn't be brought about by the threat of death!!<br/><br/>This is not Brown's best work, in my opinion, but a good read.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An amusing little story with repercussions felt across life in a small(ish) southern burg of Charlottesville, VA.  There's probably a lesson in here for all of us.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book I have read by Brown.  The first half of the book I found to be an entertaining &amp; funny read.  However the story slowed down after that &amp; I did not find the second half to be anywhere close to as entertaining as the first.  Overall it was a quick read &amp; at least half was enter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46025052">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this a long time ago and remember liking it a lot.  I always love Rita Mae Brown - she isn't a &quot;Great Writer&quot;, but suits me just perfectly.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had its moments of good story telling, separated by periods of straight sex.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unlike anything I have ever read before.  The gods and goddesses are pretty interesting.  Could relate to some people I know in some of them.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It has been too long since I read this book!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love, love, love me some Rita Mae Brown but man, this one was insane. She had me until the last couple of chapters.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first Rita Mae Brown book that I read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book had a great premise and was very entertaining.   It did take an extremely bizarre detour, however, when the main character had the orgy with the Roman gods.   I don't even know what to say about that part, but it was certainly original.   It was the first book I read by Rita Mae Brown and h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20945300">more...</a>]]></body>
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