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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps it was my love of her other book, Eat, Pray, Love, that made me not completely love this book.  If 1/2 stars were an option, I would have gone with 3 1/2 stars, so I'm rounding up.  It was an interesting read...characters were well written, but there was no one I was emotionally invested in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51221303">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Do not EVER try to audio version of this book. The &quot;Maine Accent,&quot; is awful. Someone did NOT do their homework.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is really a 2.5. I can only relate it to eating sunflowers.....a whole lot of work for very little pleasure. True to lobster men vocab the conversations are liberally seasoned with the mother of all words. So I became quite efficient at reading over them as well as the lords name in vain. ugh.....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66740216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't expect much when a friend gave me &quot;Eat, Pray, Love&quot; but ended up really loving it, so when I found &quot;Stern Men&quot; at a book swap I was really excited to get into it, especially since I have spent quite a bit of time on the Maine coast where she took her inspiration for this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58079837">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I respect Elizabeth Gilbert as a writer--a lot. Her dialogue jumps off the page, her descriptions are taut and humorous. But I do feel that this book reveals a young author trying to find her groove. There are some plot points that fall short, and the character arcs only develop fully in the epilogu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80177874">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Elizabeth Gilbert is, truly, an amazing writer.  She has developed some colorful, lifelike characters, and you can see the journalist in her with the meticulous research she did for the book.  Its only shortfall in my mind is in the storytelling...the yarn at the center of it isn't developed well en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7445906">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Clearly I've become an Elizabeth Gilbert fan!! I'd read Eat, Pray, Love once -- then twice. Then I had the pleasure of going to listen to Gilbert speak in Portland, ME, this fall. Even in front of a huge crowd of people, you can feel that she's a good egg. :)<br/><br/>Ok, enough about her. This is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43270508">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is what  has turned out to be the best outcome of my quitting work-in order to convince myslef I am saving money on bookis (and I am) I now haunt remainder shelves and (highly recommended) Daedalus Books in Columbia. And I find gems I would not have notice in the megamart or found on Amazon, si...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65768019">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the character of Ruth Thomas. If I had a daughter, I wouldn't mind if she was a little like Ruth. I'd even take the stubbornness.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had tickets to hear Elizabeth Gilbert talk about the process of writing so I was eager to read something she'd written before she found Eat, Pray, Love fame.  This novel about a small lobster community is smart and has a great 18 year old protagonist who is far brighter than her years.  If you wan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72959489">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thanks, Karrie, for reminding me about <em>Stern Men,</em> a Before GoodReads gem. Elizabeth Gilbert has a fresh and funny voice. Her character Ruth is just plain fierce. The other characters are quirky, but well-drawn. The events move along at what I think is a deliberate island pace, and overall I'd rate i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49943428">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading &quot;The Last American Man&quot;, I wanted to read more by the author, Elizabeth Gilbert. I was pleased to learn she had written about lobster men off the coast of Maine (I recently visited Maine, and seriously feel the inhabitants should be written about OFTEN)<br/><br/>&quot;Lobster...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53976060">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Zbyt intensywna reklama szkodzi - to wie większość. Jednak co poradzić na to, gdy reklamowany przedmiot okazuje się nie być ani trochę przereklamowany, a wręcz przeciwnie? Po chwili możemy uznać, że nawet najintensywniejsza reklama to za mało…</em><br/><br/>Zakazana miłość dwojga młod...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57240548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A generally charming novel about the eccentric residents of a pair of Maine islands inhabited mostly by lobstermen. This book benefits from well-drawn characters and frequently fantastic dialogue, but is hampered by some pretty major pacing issues. Gilbert does a wonderful job creating Ruth Thomas a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30421090">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here is fair warning: If you are looking for a book to fill the hole left by Eat, Pray, Love, reading Stern Men is like trying to shove a square lobster trap into that round hole. It doesn't quite fit the bill.  <br/><br/>I really wanted to like this book.  After Eat, Pray, Love I thought it would...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24362966">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[STERN MEN by Elizabeth Gilbert was written before EAT, PRAY, LOVE. I just did not appreciate EPL but this book was so very good.  Story of the lobster trade  on two remote islands off the coast of Maine - I now, weird huh?  There's a plucky young heroine and so many other characters - I felt like I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57205422">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A story of a lobsterman's daughter set on one of two neighboring secluded Maine islands.  I certainly learned a lot about the lobster trade!  The plot itself is on Ruth Thomas and her life growing up on the island with all of its' eccentric characters.  By the time the story rolls to a finish, Ruth ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53126667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My wife, the daughter of a lobsterman in Maine, bought this book after seeing Elizabeth Gilbert speak.  After she'd read it I picked it up casually, not really expecting to read it.  I was surprised by how quickly it grabbed me and how much I loved the book.  I suppose living in coastal Maine with m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78103466">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was so prepared to love this book because I had just finished Eat, Pray, Love by the same author. This is the story of a girl growing up in Maine without her mother. Because that is my own story, I was ready to dive into this book whole heartedly. The background for the story, the landscape, and a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32419436">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was very disappointed in this book as I found Elizabeth Gilbert to be funny and easy to relate to when she wrote Eat, Pray, Love, so I had looked forward to reading one of her novels.  Unfortunately, this story of a lobster fishing island off the coast of Maine was rambling, disjointed and I was a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79331097">more...</a>]]></body>
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