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  <read_at>Thu Mar 06 11:30:42 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes, I know, I know, I have most everything packed, okay??<br/>Anyway, I couldn't sleep last night (combination of headcold, late-afternoon coffee run, and I dunno, stress perhaps?) but I stayed up reading these stories, each one hitting me in different, intense ways. <br/>The loneliness and isola...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10290926">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These stories are like mica -- pretty, delicate, dark, yet sharp on the edges. I like this book, but it's not for those seeking an action-packed plot, since most of the stories worked well as character studies. <br/><br/>They seemed like abstract snapshots of somebody's mental insides, odd insides...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42049818">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[And here we have it, the answer to what's GOOD about linked collections.  Most of these stories appeared in magazines before appearing in this collection, suggesting to me that the theme of the book - goings on in a small Maine town - appeared organically in the author's imagination.  The perspectiv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14984537">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of short stories about the most depressing town in New England. The writing wasn't bad, and the stories really made you think about life, but everything about these character's lives was so darn sad that I couldn't continue to read after about the first five stories. Aptly titled - if I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69119915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The eleven stories of Jason Brown's collection <em>Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work</em> are linked by their setting in the fictional Maine town of Vaughn, and by their interest in young people navigating treacherous waters (both literally and figuratively).  Though presented mostly in the realis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61016529">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this collection of linked stories set in rural Maine not for the characters - almost all of whom are poignantly shadowed by loss but almost interchangeable - but rather for the sense of place.  Rarely can a short story writer give us a complete history of a town, and rarer still can he make tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67122740">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an exquisitely crafted book of short stories. The first half of the book, I wanted to give it five stars, but I have to say that I grew bored of the fictional community and all the awful things happening by the end of the book. There is something about the &quot;literary&quot; short story th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59207855">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I very much enjoyed these short stories. Jason Brown is like a darker Richard Russo. All of the stories take place in the same small town in Maine. It's a typical small town and none of the people are all that different than folks anywhere, but each story involves a dysfunction or tragedy that shape...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34917872">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I let this book down...these stories are dense and big and demanding, a lot of them, and I don't think I rose appropriately to the occasion--felt like I mostly just skimmed along the surface of them rather than committing myself fully.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dark, very dark, set of short stories, loosely linked around a fictional community in Maine and its residents. Brown is a fine craftsman, and the writing gets under your skin in that way that effective writing does. My only complaint, I guess, is that after the two-thirds point or so, I started feel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18636444">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not from Maine, and I don't know if I have a dark inner life, but this book was incredible.  I have a half-formed thought where in crowded, populated, urban places like cities, other people serve to buffer one another (somewhat like human straightjackets, but maybe more like those stakes they us...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16885959">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Best book of shorts I've read in forever, given to me by a fellow Polar Bear, and written by one, as well. Set in a small town in Maine, up the Kennebec from Bath, I'll likely use several in my classes. <br/><br/>The title? Doesn't get much better than that. And the first story? &quot;It could be,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19745468">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[WoMABookGroup selection for June 2009<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.womabookgroup.blogspot.com/">http://www.womabookgroup.blogspot.com/</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What great characters and strong story development in these short stories. I think this guy's going to be an excellent novelist as well, since he does SO well with short stories. My sister bought this for me for my birthday.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent. Reinforces my belief that anytime a good lit journal publishes books (in this case the superb Open City) that said books are usually excellent, and hard to find on the shelf. Everything I've read with Open City on the spine has been well worth the time, effort, and money. Twice over.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very well crafted stories with a bit of mysticism . . .an allorgorical town named Vaughn represents the wider world.  Well worth the time spent reading these stories and I particularly enjoyed how the author incorporated natural elements in each story.]]></body>
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    <review id="25718030">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Soe good ones in here.  I especially like the title story.  The bookj is not nearly as dark as I was lead to believe by reviewers... not really a downer at all, and at times quite optimistic and hopeful.  Go Jason... where's the novel???]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Curled up on the couch with this last night, while the woman was watching some sports movie tearjerker.  A must read for anybody who loves reading about seemingly normal, fucked-up families.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the first story in this collection last night. I'm trying a new approach to short story collections where I just dip into them, rather than reading straight through.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best short story collection I have read in ten years.  Brilliant, exciting and dark.  It will make you very much afraid of swimming in lake waters.]]></body>
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