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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Talking was so much more complicated than making love...fucking, she should call it, since it was hard to see how anything she did with him could be about love. To talk with people you had to ignore the way you felt and speak from the front of your face...or else go through the effort of disti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49655957">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I could find a few reviews of this book from when it was originally published. I am sure that by not living through the women's lib movement &amp; the sexual revolution, I am  missing something from this book. <br/><br/>However, as a person who grew up in the 80's, this book dooesn't strike me ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42906712">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am speeding through this one, and 2/3s in, it is getting 5 stars. Yes, I'd seen the movie and it was harrowing. I will never forget it. But, wow, what riveting, compelling writing. I like the close character study and psychological character insights in this novel. I think Rossner does a nice job ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29177326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw the movie, starring Diane Keaton long ago and it stuck with me. The book was just as dark and dreary. Is it a 1970's statement about what happens to a reluctant feminist? Or is it simply the story of one confused woman. I think it can be read either way.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books, like <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50833.Valley_of_the_Dolls" title="Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann">Valley of the Dolls</a> or <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/526869.Peyton_Place" title="Peyton Place by Grace Metalious">Peyton Place</a>, that you <em>know</em> better but you just can not stop reading it.  You can feel your brain softening and your eyes and personality growing dull and you feel like you're being naughty because most of the story is really quite simply just ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45983812">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[okay, saying i ''loved'' this book is not quite right--but i have to say it's brilliantly written.  it's a perfect representation of the dark side of the sexual revolution of the '60's and '70's yet still rings true as a representation of the insecurities that still haunt women.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read it in a couple of hours, and was bummed out for much longer than that. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good solid book about the potential consequences of promiscuity before the age of AIDS.<br/><br/>People who live in this generation might not understand or appreciate this book.  After all, we are living in a world without boundaries where sexting happens with people you've never met as easily a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60690234">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the book has a strange quality that feels like you are rereading it the first time you read it,perhaps because you are informed of the end 2 pages in perhaps not. The narration is weird because you can never figure out how the fuck the narrator got then information they have (yes I have been spoiled...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55650026">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book opens up with the ending, so we already know what will happen to Theresa Dunn, before it starts telling her whole life beginning with her childhood. It's not a perfectly happy childhood. She is sick at lot, and her parents are occupied with her siblings. But it could have been worse, and sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5522676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sex, violence and manipulation.  That's what I &quot;heard&quot; in the lines of this story.  The main character, Theresa Dunn, is a self indulgent &quot;slut&quot; who engages in dangerous sexual trysts with strangers while emotionally abusing the one man who, for some inexplicable reason, loves he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65765195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beginning section describing the murder from the cowboy's POV is totally unnecessary and seems like a cinematic embellishment. I almost stopped reading. But as the story progresses, I realize it is part of this 70s/80s genre of attempting-to-be-liberated women that in the end gets punished for this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63698130">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw the movie first which, even though it left me feeling kind of dirty, I found compelling.  As usual, the book is so much better than the movie.  You really understand why Theresa is the way she is.  Her relationships are much more fleshed out in the book and she is a much more sympathetic chara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53830578">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Better than I thought. I always get my hands on random books down here (clearly I feel weird about this since I think I'm apologetic in even review I write). You start out reading an analyzation of a confession and then the actual confession of the murderer of a woman. Then the author has made up th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36328668">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is a short book and rather disconcerting. Definitely not a feel good story. Raw. It's about a woman/teacher looking for Mr. Right and using the bar to find them. It's a sad and lonely life that I think, unfortunately, many women may relate to and this case ends tragically. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Roberta, I can definitely see why Theresa reminded you of Lee from Prep.  They both had the same sort of passiveness going on.  I also found it sad and fascinating how, even though the language was so obviously from another time period, the reactions and emotions of Theresa were textbook modern fema...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37788667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pointless, gratuitous, offensive, accomplishing nothing even on its own terms. A complete waste of time -- and, in the movie version, of Diane Keaton's talents.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sexy but depressing account of a lonely NYC teacher who frequents local bars and takes home men she doesn't know, which eventually leads to her grisly murder. The book isn't a mystery, though. It's all about Theresa Dunn and why she does what she does. I've read Rossner based this novel on the true ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56878420">more...</a>]]></body>
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