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  <title><![CDATA[The Gold Bug Variations]]></title>
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  <default_description>A national bestseller, voted by &lt;I&gt;Time&lt;/I&gt; as the #1 novel of 1991, selected as one of the &quot;Best Books of 1991&quot; by &lt;I&gt;Publishers Weekly&lt;/I&gt;, and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award--a magnificent story that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art, by the brilliant author of &lt;I&gt;Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance&lt;/I&gt;.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">9</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1991</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Gold Bug Variations</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Powers]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 18 17:58:06 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 01 16:11:29 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dear Richard Powers,<br/><br/>       I'm sorry I gave up on your book about a third of the way into it.  I don't normally do that.  Even if I'm trapped in an airport newsstand without a book, and end up buying &quot;The Hunt for Red October&quot;, or some Neil Gaiman jerk-off dorkfest, I'll usuall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3244494">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23299643">
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 30 08:20:45 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 05 08:14:13 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't like this book.  I'm surprised I didn't like it more because I loved the only other book I've read by Powers, <em>The Echo Maker</em>.  Both deal with similar kinds of people. Powers is adept at getting inside the mind of the academic, which is probably because they, professors and other intellectua...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23299643">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14499048">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 03 22:20:59 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 14 18:56:17 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually didn't finish this book. I got 1/3 of the way through it, when I suddenly realized that I didn't like any of the characters. This is a book about socially awkward and introverted people for whom mundane occurrences are wrought with brooding revelation and significance. It is well written,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14499048">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76152274">
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 29 15:37:10 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 31 19:09:37 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Can't say I learned anything about dna or genetics and there is a lot of scientific lingo here.  However.  It is a real tour de force and I had to give it five stars.  The structure of the Goldberg Variations is so wonderful as background.  The last few chapters of the book really dissect the Bach p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76152274">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5713673">
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 05 10:57:27 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 05 11:00:55 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overworked and overdone.  Each sentence reads as though you were reading across two pages that were stuck together.  There's no flow, no sense of context or storytelling at all, only a sense that the writer is trying to show off his ability to use a thesaurus.  I can't get into this book.  I don't t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5713673">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65147395">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 27 11:42:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 13 10:00:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found that the book doesn't hold my attention as do other of Powers' novels because when I read his works I usually devour them in a few days. Comparatively, this is a much slower read and due to the esoteric side story of genetics I labor through some sections. His novels start off esoterically w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65147395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54824908">
    <user id="232443">
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 03 16:25:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 21 10:11:39 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second Richard Powers book I've read and once again I'm left feeling that he looked up from his manuscript in the last 100 pages, realized he had to add a climax to the tale, and that this realization nearly spoiled everything. <br/><br/>I would not recommend reading this book during s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54824908">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17759643">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone interested in genetics, library science, art history, bach's goldberg variations]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 14 13:15:59 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 14 13:24:06 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book really struck some cords with me, mostly due to the overlap between several technical/scientific subject areas that are used throughout the book as metaphors and also as mind-opening lessons in how the lived world has been changing as we have access to more information than ever. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17759643">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1434966">
    <user id="95861">
    <name><![CDATA[Nate]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri May 25 06:02:21 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 25 06:02:25 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you don't get the title's allusive pun (to Robbins's Goldberg Variations), you won't get far into this long, densely textured, multi-referential, and brilliant novel. It demands that a reader make connections between such diversities as the genetic code and musical notation, Flemish art and biolo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1434966">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34308035">
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    <name><![CDATA[Marck]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 01 14:17:10 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 01 14:17:41 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Let this be a lesson to a father of two: Never take on novels that are described on the back cover as &quot;one of the most ambitious novels of our time!&quot; unless one can be fully committed to the experience. Powers' achievement here is mind-boggling, but I was not in the best circumstances to f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34308035">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6771377">
    <user id="230400">
    <name><![CDATA[Jae]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 25 10:22:26 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 08 10:16:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite that it took me nearly a month to read, I did enjoy this book a lot. It was a great combination of the studies science (genetics specifically), music, and human nature (obsession specifically). The way Powers relates the construction of Bach's Goldberg Variations to the construction of the g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6771377">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54632141">
    <user id="1432854">
    <name><![CDATA[Corey]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 01 15:51:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 01 15:53:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just too long.  It could have been significantly shorter and still got its point across.  It is a richly researched and well-written novel but it was just a bit too heady for my tastes.  Some of you that thrive in this arena might love it - and I might have liked it better if I had a month instead o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54632141">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4126246">
    <user id="250836">
    <name><![CDATA[Jen]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 05 19:00:36 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 05 19:04:47 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, how I loved this book when I first read it. I remember savoring every page and wanting to start over again as soon as I finished. It's on my &quot;desert island&quot; (most favorite/influential) list because it meant so much to me at a time in my life when everything was changing. I was a young ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4126246">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62238519">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It’s about the underlying similarities between, and conflicts inherent in, music and the genetic code and programming and language and beauty and meaning and relationships and patterns; the twin quests of discovery that are science and love… and it just blows me away. I don’t know how he can w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62238519">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1928229">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jun 13 11:55:01 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[More people who love fiction need to discover Richard Powers.  His work isn't the most poetic or character-driven, but they offer so much else.  I've Gold Bug and Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance are among my all-time favorite books (but avoid <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23000.Operation_Wandering_Soul" title="Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers">Operation Wandering Soul</a>).<br/><br/>A story of tw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1928229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56961281">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 22 09:03:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 11 21:12:56 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the right book at the right time for me. Tags include: libraries, knowledge, dna, music, patterns, nyc, love, computerprogramming, flemishart, love...<br/>&quot;It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2979923">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Mon Sep 21 04:00:59 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book about 18 years ago, when it first came out, and it has been on my mind many times ever since, enough so that I was recently driven to find a copy and re-read it. I had given in 5 stars as I remembered it. If I were rating it today I would probably give it 4 stars, as I've read simil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44888478">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a book!  The story of 4 people, 2 different generations, and how their lives intertwine and interplay.  Gold Bug as in a short story by Poe I have yet to read, and Goldberg Variation as in J.S. Bach.  One character a contemporary of Glenn Gould, previously musically inept, but introduced to the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29453407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers (1992)]]></body>
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