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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you read the bibliography of this book you will never have to go to college. Which is the point of the book. (It is free for college freshman and all 18 years olds, with ID). Having read this book, I feel like I am ready to go to college, even  though I already have, and even though, like one of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29002829">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a good idea for a book: two groups of smart thirtysomething writers gather, in person, to talk candidly about books they wish they had and hadn't read as teenagers and as college students. (This pamphlet presents lightly edited transcripts of the two conversations.)<br/><br/>I enjoyed reading...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10251642">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to make mistakes, just to learn from them. A life lesson still unknown to the authors of this overly neurotic and backwardly-fixated document. Most striking to me was how little agreement there was among the panel participants of what they &quot;should have known&quot;. All you re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47230628">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two choice passages: <br/><br/>Keith Gessen: I didn't learn about the band Pavement until I read a obituary for them in Feed magazine in the year 2000. And Pavement would have made college... It would have made college more tolerable, but the point of the story is . . . I wish I'd known about them...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48624991">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A quick read that offers a fair number of insights into problems plaguing contemporary formal education as well as some guidance on how to better become genuinely educated in a more meaningful way.  Probably targeted at those between the ages of 16 and 24...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In its quest for perspicacity I think n+1 sacrificed its sense of irony. That's not to say the book isn't worth reading - it is - but it's markedly less relevant than its oracular tone perceives itself.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was excited to read transcripts of people sitting around talking about books they should have read in college, but they ended up mostly reproducing the Canon.  Great idea; only an OK implementation.  A more diverse cast of participants (all but one are in their 30s; most are White) might have come...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15079442">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmmm. Gawker really convinced me to hate <em>N + 1</em>, which is probably incredibly silly, right? I don't even read Gawker anymore. So I should read this to make up for my totally unjustified dislike, right? Or maybe I should read Gessen's book first? Or maybe I should just stop fretting over such nonsens...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29581181">more...</a>]]></body>
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