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    <body><![CDATA[Favorites passages: <br/><br/>&quot;On a golden May morning in the sixth year of Calvin Coolidge's presidency, a stout little dark-haired boy named Herbert Bookbinder, dressed in a white shirt, a blue tie and gray knee breeches, sat at a desk in Public School 50 in the Bronx, suffering the pain of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41293985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book difficult to get into initially, and I kept wondering where it was going.  But I did enjoy the imagery of childhood in the Bronx in the 1920's and found the main character identifiable.  By the end of the book you see where you have been and discover you have enjoyed the ride, thou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42483113">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this as part of my &quot;read everything ever written about the Bronx&quot; kick, but found that it also fit into another one of my favorite subgenres: boy's stories in which the underdog rises above his station and becomes a hero.<br/><br/>The big difference, though, is that most authors i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7816654">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this little book.. an easy and pleasant read, and a nice escape (from dreary, cold January) to the summer of 1928 in the Bronx.  Reminded me of all the pleasures of being a kid again.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book randomly at a bookstore. It's a very entertaining story about one boy's life in the Bronx and at summer camp during the early 20th century.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this years and years ago - I think I was 13. But loved the characters, loved the story, the coming-of-age...HAve re-read it numerous times and never tire of it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the one Wouk book that never got me hooked.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book when I was about 14, after I had read and enjoyed The Caine Mutiny and decided to pick up any books I could find by the same author in the used bookstore. This remains my favorite of Herman Wouk's books. It may not be epic in scope, but it is very, very human. It spoke to me on a pe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10914883">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An old favorite.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is such a delightful little read. Anyone who was once a precocious, bratty, little know it all preteen will identify with chubster Herbie, the most brilliant(and most hated) kid in his school, and later his summer camp. <br/>He gets himself involved in a love triangle with the most popula...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27613879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This rating system REALLY needs 3.5's.  Anyway - I think this book is what a book should be.  Not so intense you can't sleep or put it down, but enough energy that keeps you going. Herbie Bookbinder is a great 11 yr. old and I can still remember and relate to all those 11 yr. old conflicts. The prin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35235026">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I came across this one at a thrift store in Estes Park. I had never heard of it and didn't expect much, but ended up loving it. It's a funny, coming-of-age story about an overweight Jewish boy going to summer camp and trying to win a girl's heart. Very well-written, with subtle humor and recognizabl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26157469">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite coming of age novel about a charming 11 year old boy in the Bronx, circa 1925. His trials and tribulations still ring true today. The book has real wisdom and is the best depiction of the mind of a boy I know. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wish I could better grasp the flavour of the Bronx 50s vernacular and inside jokes. It's so frustrating not to be a native speaker!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oldie but goodie- as I'm raising boys, it gives a glimpse into the life of a boy growing up in an earlier era.  Funny and sweet.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all-time favorites.  Several of the chapters could stand on their own as wonderful short stories.  Just a treat.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My blog post about this book is <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://blogmybooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/city-boy-by-herman-wouk.html">here</a>.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good book.  It reminded me of Tom Sawyer.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my least favorite of Herman Wouk's books.]]></body>
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