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  <title><![CDATA[The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Travis Hugh Culley]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book that has never been written before about a subcultural part of a larger revolution. I love reading books about things that have never been written about before.<br/><br/>Every asshole driver who won't share the road should be strapped down and forced to read this. Having said this, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68406726">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an important book for artists that have to struggle through day jobs to read.  Also it is great for bicycle messengers.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the appreciative details about Chicago<br/>and liked learning how the bike-messenger network<br/>works. The interweaving (to me, awkward) of past<br/>personal experiences was a possibly good idea gone<br/>wrong, I thought. Tightened up, it could have been<br/>better.   ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Expecting this to be a contemporary-sociology-of-obscure-subculture thing, I was disappointed to find it to be a personal memoir, written by a 25yo, no less. The Chicago stuff was fun, but wow, 25yos should not write memoirs.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[liked <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2956.The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn" title="The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain">critical mass</a> history from chicago, otherwise, obnoxiously self absorbed writer, started skimming it...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[meh. The year this came out, every bike messenger I knew got this for their birthday, me included. There are some good parts, but mostly I don't recommend it.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;America today is locked down tight in the tinted glass and the environmental controls that filter, cool, and falsify the air of the common man.&quot;<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a fun read, although it more or less just a long essay about how awesome bike couriers are.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book about the underworld of bike messengering (is that a word?!) haha]]></body>
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