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  <title><![CDATA[Veronica]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;p&gt; On a snowy night in February--at the improbable corner in lower Manhattan where Waverly Place intersects itself--a photographer named Leo meets Veronica, the beautiful, enigmatic daughter of an illusionist who has been swallowed up in time. Veronica is looking for an appetite, a savior. And she is soon leading Leo into a dangerous labyrinth of delights that winds beneath and beyond a luminously transformed city of underground streams, dragonpoints, and mystically altered time. At the frozen apex of an extraordinary winter, Veronica has enticed Leo into a wonderful, terrible world...and away from his ordinary life forever. &lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1996</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Veronica</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Nicholas Christopher]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very disappointed. This book violates one of my cardinal rules of storytelling: plot comes from character, not the other way around. Leo, the main character in Veronica does nothing - the plot happens to him. He is just along for the ride, not really even questioning the odd things that happen to hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63536395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74515435">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[4.5 Stars<br/>My first venture into a book by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3956.Christopher_Hitchens" title="Christopher Hitchens">Nicolas Christopher</a> produced a very good, if slightly confusing read.<br/><br/>Leo meets Veronica on a snowy night in Manhattan where Waverly place intersects itself.  She leads him through a labyrinth of places and events in an effort to save her ill...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74515435">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63434120">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book completely threw me when I started, but once I got into it, I really began to enjoy it. The opening chapters were very confusing, but later, as the plot begins to unravel and become more apparent, it paid off.  <br/><br/>I enjoyed that we are as befuddled as Leo when all these strange ev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63434120">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book came into my life at a fairly chaotic, emotionally tumultuous and generally difficult time, and for many years I wondered if that was why it became so important to me, but the truth is that I have read it several times since then and it is still the magical, insightful, exciting experience...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76672788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78377613">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ordinarily, I am not a fantasy fan, but I really enjoyed this book. Reading it is like having a strange dream in which nothing makes sense, but you are carried along with the narrative because, well, you can't escape. That's how I felt reading Veronica.]]></body>
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    <review id="70546373">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Sep 14 19:56:19 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book, lots of amazing descriptions, a total page-turner. Even though I had about 100 pages left, I couldn't put it down and go to bed, so I stayed up reading until I was finished. Brilliant work. Makes me want to get back to my own fiction. Highly recommended!]]></body>
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    <review id="47035108">
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this one.  Another good one with NYC as the backdrop.  Romantic and mysterious, Christopher spins a lovely tale.]]></body>
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    <review id="40842329">
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    <body><![CDATA[there were some really cool ideas, but not as solid a book as trip to the stars. for me.<br/>i enjoyed the feng shui concepts...]]></body>
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    <review id="44903334">
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  <date_added>Fri Jan 30 17:36:02 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 30 17:37:19 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An odd book, but I loved it. Tibetan tea, magicians, astral travel and reality. The nature of time. And true love.]]></body>
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    <review id="39619436">
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    <body><![CDATA[Get caught up in a tail of intrigue, the world of magicians, all set against a very downtown Manhattan scene.]]></body>
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    <review id="75884667">
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting syle of writing, but the plot was now where near as interesting as &quot;A Trip to the Stars&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="65639215">
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    <name><![CDATA[Anita]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the most memorable, surreal books I've ever read.  It's haunting and beautiful.]]></body>
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    <review id="53849497">
    <user id="206177">
    <name><![CDATA[John]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read a lot of books, but never one like this one.  Mystic, mythic, magic, poetic, symbolic.  WOW!]]></body>
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    <review id="66567466">
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this one, mom!]]></body>
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    <review id="40576436">
    <user id="553795">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[a wried type and hard to rate it. ]]></body>
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    <review id="48668561">
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh wow, I lied this.<br/>Read it in one day, just straight through, but that just shows how memorizing it is. ]]></body>
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    <review id="37458165">
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    <name><![CDATA[Casey]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found it really beautifully written and full of intriguing suspense, but I didn't love it. The narrator had absolute zero personality, and while the magic and mysticism were for the most part extremely cool, I felt as if there were no ingrained rules to the magic of this universe and magical occur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37458165">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5196061">
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mystical and noirish, the story of a young man's involvement with a woman who is on a quest to bring back her magician father who is trapped travelling through time. The line between the dream world, the fourth dimension, and reality is difficult to keep track of, but it was an adventurous and very ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5196061">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35343633">
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    <name><![CDATA[Marla]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[A supernatural story that takes place through time and space.  I like the way the author uses repeated themes and astronomy.  Another book by this author is one of my absolute favorites <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14967.A_Trip_To_The_Stars" title="A Trip To The Stars by Nicholas Christopher">A Trip to the Stars</a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35343633">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Sep 12 22:59:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't get this book at all but I'll try to reread it again sometime in the future. The first few chapters were cool but when he [the narrator:] found himself in a place that is definitely not New York (was a dream probably), I got lost.]]></body>
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