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  <title><![CDATA[Jumpers]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tom Stoppard]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 10 19:07:17 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 20 21:53:50 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[an academic/acrobatic troupe of university professors becomes entangled in an investigation after one of their number is murdered at a wild soiree. a former actress, struggling with lunacy after seeing the heartless act of an astronaut televised live from the moon, is the primary suspect. her husban...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35020276">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stoppard's wit and absurdity is on full display in 'Jumpers.'  Although I haven't seen it performed on stage, it was a great pleasure to read (even if Stoppard himself is suspicious of definitive written texts).  <br/><br/>The story is a bit hard to follow at times because it operates in the realm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17953510">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jun 24 19:06:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 24 19:08:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a relatively early work, but it's got all the hallmarks of my favorite works - music (including some composed by Stoppard), philosophy, clever wordplay, and zany happenings.<br/><br/>Framed as both a murder mystery and a story about an argument between moral philosophies, it is brilliant a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61002056">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71196727">
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    <body><![CDATA[Jumpers: A Play by Tom Stoppard (1974)]]></body>
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    <review id="59651683">
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    <body><![CDATA[Jumpers by Tom Stoppard (1994)]]></body>
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    <review id="39951933">
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 12 10:23:43 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pure, silly fun.]]></body>
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    <review id="40456982">
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  <date_updated>Sun Dec 28 09:50:51 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[couldn't much finish the book.  give it another shot next time.]]></body>
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    <review id="7856752">
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every time I read something by Stoppard I am struck 1. his intelligence, wit, and humor and 2. the thouht &quot;I should read more of his works.&quot; No exceptio here. The (literal) lunacy of the modern moral/ethical/philosophical/religious relation was as fascinating as it was disorienting. Would ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7856752">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 17 23:15:08 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A relatively early book, and it shows.  Predictably witty and intelligent, of course, but the farce doesn't carry the play even as well as it does in, say, <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" title=" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"> Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead</a></em>.]]></body>
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    <review id="16549890">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 27 15:47:47 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recommended by the ineffable Herb Granger. I can't tell whether this is the perfect indictment or the perfect paean to existentialism. ]]></body>
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    <review id="326273">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite plays. It is the definition of the term &quot;an embarrassment of riches.&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="1108852">
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    <body><![CDATA[ok, so maybe i only half read it and saw the play twice. that mostly counts. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bizarre, but in a good way.  Also in a forgettable way.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[pure virtuosity...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[AMAZING]]></body>
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