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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful, melancholy literature, reminiscent of The Great Gatsby.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you liked Donna Tartt's Secret History, you will enjoy this.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm slowly learning that any book compared to The Secret History will never, ever live up to that promise and the experience of reading will be even less enjoyable due to the comparison.  This is a mediocre book, full of long amuteurish descriptions that often depend on brand names rather than adjec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15966095">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although this book is rated here on Goodreads as a poor man's The Secret History, I very much enjoyed the plot and especially Stourton's descriptive almost floral language. Maybe it's the Britophile in me...too much time spent reading British music magazines...<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was seduced by the subject. It was supposed to be similar to The Secret History, but it is infinitely more clunky.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i liked this book better the first time i read it. when it was called the secret history...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't love it. I actually scanned the last 100 pages or so. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not bad. For a 26-year-old British aristocratic punk.]]></body>
    
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