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    <body><![CDATA[As a student of Carolyn See, and an admirer who has followed her stories since first meeting her in a dilapidated UCLA classroom in 1996, its incredibly difficult to separate this novel from her life. Readers are not supposed to judge a piece of art based on the author's life.  We should be able to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61233667">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An ex-girlfriend, a woman who has dedicated her life to the study of human communication, once told me after she had grown weary of my reticent ways, “Joel, if you have nothing to say on the topic, just nod.”  I suppose the literary equivalent of the nod would be the ellipsis – an extremely va...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31227972">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a deceptively simple book -- it really engaged that post 9/11 fear that kind of captured all of us, and explores the things that we can't even begin to think of fearing until those things are upon us. <br/><br/>It wasn't the most satisfying book in some ways -- particularly in that it didn'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43887548">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The style of writing in this book reminded me of Days of Awe (which I didn't like at all) but was a more enjoyable reading experience for me.  It also reminded me of Didion's &quot;Year of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815.The_Year_of_Magical_Thinking" title="The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion">Magical Thinking</a>&quot; because it was about what happens  to the living spouse after their spouse dies... but a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11101811">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As someone else said, this tried to capture LA, and God knows she should be able to do it, being a prof at UCLA and all, but maybe it would have been more to my liking if it had been EITHER a sort-of-political post-9/11 scary family tale OR a family-drama-after-one-dies tale, OR a world weary rich w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18955747">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As in the movie &quot;American Beauty,&quot; and the book &quot;Film Club,&quot; I was encouraged by the optimism for the outcome of the survivors, in &quot;There Will Never Be Another You&quot;. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is set in Los Angeles around 9/11/2001. I thought the characters lacked depth and the plot was not terribly interesting. A bunch of self-absorbed characters that I had trouble caring about.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am so freaking excited to read this book. <br/>But can't, until the semester is out and I am free to love fiction once again. Saving it for a treat. See also &quot;Golden Days&quot;.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A quirky novel by Carolyn See about tangled lives in the context of a potential national catastrophe.  Good conclusion.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Neither real nor surreal enough to resonate with either heart or imagination. And the tidy closure was just, well, too tidy.]]></body>
    
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