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  <title><![CDATA[A Simple Plan]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1993</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scott Smith's books are, above all, methodical. For all their chaos and violence, everything seems inevitable, everyone acts logically, and yet, without fail, things go terribly, terribly wrong. It's impossible not to imagine yourself in his characters' places, wondering if you would have made simil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7115144">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was probably THE most painful reading experience I have ever had.  I actually finished it - more because of my own stubbornness than anything.  I guess I would have to liken it to the first few weeks of American Idol where the whole point is to show you the people that are really bad.  I a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20627825">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As with <em>The Ruins</em> this is a hard book to put down. The story starts off right away and forces you to keep reading unill the very end. I like how this author tells stories, noone is safe. Main characters can die halfway thru the book. There's no happily ever after. And Paranoia will Distroy yaaa! The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53856805">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first of two novels by Scott Smith (the other being &quot;The Ruins&quot;), which was eventually made into a movie starring Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bridgett Fonda.<br/><br/>The story line can be briefly summarized by the old adage, &quot;Oh, what a tangled web we weave...&quot;.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69841203">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A contemporary morality tale about fear, greed, and grief that made me want to see the film again. (The screenplay by Scott Smith, the book's author, is quite simplified as compared to the novel, which has one horrific and unexpected twist or turn after another.) This suspense-filled tale of human f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73121488">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like what a person thinks, then what a person does, then you'll absolutely enjoy this novel.  I know I did.  Kind of dark in a way.  And the most enjoyable part of it was, I understood fully the narrator's perspective.  The kind of book that puts the query out there, &quot;Put yourself in my ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71655167">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Made into a movie with Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton in 1998, A Simple Plan is a book that poses a simple question - what would you do if you stumbled upon a fortune?  I never saw the movie, but I just may rent it now.  This novel is actually a really good read.  Interesting, horrifying, and tr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56835144">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am very reluctant to read &quot;suspense&quot; novels.  I have a high standard for the genre and I find that I am seldom satisfied.  As luck would have it a friend gave me this book, so I was obligated to read it.  It turned out to be quiet possibly the best suspense novel I've read in years and c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48412412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On an afternoon jaunt, Hank, his brother, and a friend accidentally discover a wrecked plane. Inside they find the dead pilot and a sack containing four million dollars. The men know that they should notify the authorities, but instead they devise a foolproof scheme for keeping the money. They will ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38946896">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was drawn in by the premise of the book: 3 ordinary guys find a lot of money in a wrecked airplane, and make the decision to keep it for themselves.  The book spiraled down from there, with the plot of whatever-can-go-wrong-will-go-wrong at times trite and predictable, and at others far-fetched to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44303366">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Update: A telling quote from Sarah, Hank's wife. Hank is the accountant whom we would assume to be the more moral (why in heaven's name we would assume that is beyond me given the accounting failures of recent years). This comes - SPOILER ALERT - after Hank has shot his friend, his friend's wife, hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39543741">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What does one do if you find 4.4 million dollars in hard cash? Just ask Hank Mitchell, a small town accountant who discovered the immense sum while out with his brother, Jacob, and his brother's friend, Lou.<br/><br/>It's simple, Hank assures the reader. Such an impressive sum of money couldn't be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29810794">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two Toledo area brothers with little in common and not much of a relationship find themselves entwined in a conspiracy of silence after they happen across a fortune together, when they are the first to discover a downed private airplane filled with bags of cash.<br/><br/>The brothers enter into an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27952827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was sitting in my TBR pile for awhile. I had been hesitant to start after a neighbor I had loaned it to told me she couldn't finish it.  In an effort to get rid of some hardbacks taking up too much room, I pulled it out and decided to give it a try.<br/><br/>It caught my attention and he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21474820">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story is a true out-of-the-box adventure, although as far as liking it, I'm still not sure what to make of it. The writing was almost flawless and fantastically engaging that i was intrigued from the very first page. Hank starts of as this totally normal, relatable guy that could be your neighb...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20273134">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hank Mitchell is a married man with his first child on the way. He's the accountant at a local feed store in a small town in Ohio. When he and his brother (who are not very close) happen upon a crashed airplane with his brother's best friend Lou, they find a duffle bag containing over 4 million doll...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14444031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't actually really know what to make of this book.  I can't tell if I like it or not.  At times I was really into it and engrossed, but at other times I felt as if the book was delving into the ridiculous and at some other points I just found the book to be out right boring.  There was just a p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11317023">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scott Smith has a gift.  His story-telling is comparable to that of Stephen King.  The authors have different styles, but what is important is that his books are provacative.  In this particular story, the depths of the spiral downward the characters allow themselves to experience is like watching a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41144880">more...</a>]]></body>
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