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    <body><![CDATA[I was perusing movie trailers on my Mac last weekend and saw a cute title/trailer called <em>The Jane Austen Book Club</em>.  The end of trailer announced, &quot;Based on the best selling novel, <em>The Jane Austen Book Club</em>.&quot;  I thought it would be fun to check out the book since I almost never see a movie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5947526">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can’t decide how successful this novel actually was, in storytelling. On the one hand, I genuinely liked all the characters. On the other hand, a good two-thirds of the book is spent in telling backstory. As a way to describe character and motivation, it’s an interesting technique, and kept my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17128024">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[All right, here comes the big confession: I am not a Jane Austen fan. Actually, I have never even managed to read one of her books....I tried once - it might have been 'Pride and Prejudice' - but what little I read of this didn't leave much of an impression.<br/><br/>What's more - I don't have any...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5162522">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was really a disappointment to me. After all the hype I thought this would be a really great book. And its not. Its an ok  book, but not a great book.<br/>If you are looking for a great book about friends and book clubs, then you should read &quot;Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons: A Novel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6997519">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I chose to read The Jane Austen Book Club for two reasons - I liked the movie, and my friend Jessica had a copy I could easily borrow. Plus, I needed something light after my last book. The novel tells the story of a group of women, and one man, who are on a quest to read all 6 Jane Austen novels ov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34457952">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was full of little things that I loved: Allegra's stories, Grigg's sisters (especially when they rescued him from the house full of hippies), Jocelyn's attitude, Bernadette's past, Prudie's relationship with Dean.  Sylvia's idea that a character might have &quot;a secret life that her auth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31046278">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A well written novel that ends up flat. Fowler does a great job of taking the things she loves about Austen and putting them in her book. I have to say though if you haven't read Austen some of the subtleties may go unnotoiced. Her biggest problem was having characters that were linear in their deve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18315763">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had started this book a year or so ago, but it just didn't suit my mood.  I had nothing else to read the other night and so I picked it back up, dubiously.  But I must admit that I was pleasantly surprised.  The idea of it is difficult to render in a few sentences--but here's my attempt: the story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13129388">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I kept looking for fairly literal parallels in each chapter between the book under review and the character with which it was associated.  Not a very rewarding approach, although I did find some.  Instead, I took this book as an implicit homage to Austen.  A gently satirical portrayal of a group of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7964809">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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