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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Nothing is ever buried, the earth rolls over in its tracks, it never goes anywhere, it never changes, only the hope changes like morning and night, only the expectations rise and set. Why does there have to be a promise before destruction?&quot;<br/><br/>This simple novel, set in the Dakota ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30200008">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Westerns and Doctorow, as expected, turns out a great one especially considering this was his first published book.  Blue, a hyper responsible, self appointed mayor devotes himself to keeping town records.    People naturally turn to him when a mean gunslinger hits town.  He fails them, horri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77046032">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just read this book at the end of last year and was blown away.  I just gave it to a friend.  Love the spare writing style for emotional impact.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[kicks cormac mccarthy's ass]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Doctorow's first published novel. I enjoyed the description and the moral discussion that is created by the characters and their thoughts and actions. In this novel, a man named Blue watches the destruction of his town during the wild days of the American West. Unable to accept failure, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53050707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I happened upon this novel in a Florida bookstore while on vacation in 1978. The back cover warned that, once I started reading it I wouldn't be able to stop. &quot;Ha! We'll see about that!&quot; I said to myself and proceeded to scan the first page. &quot;I can put this down,&quot; I told myself p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27203372">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The one thing I've learned about E.L. Doctorow is that he never, ever disappoints. He could write a novel about the different varieties of Jell-O and it would probably be a masterpiece.<br/><br/>Hard Times, Doctorow's first novel, is one of the most pessimistic of his career. Everything that would...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31049910">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My third Doctorow book.  First was The March, then Billy Bathgate and now Welcome to Hard Times. The man is one versatile writer. <br/><br/>The whole idea of rebuilding this small town where you know all the weirdos in the community is fun.  It's a simple tale in some ways, but the Bad man from Bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39464309">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kick butt book!  Man, I loved this thing.  It made me think of the west in a new way.  Thank you Doctorow!  This is a hard story (it is &quot;Welcome to Hard Times&quot; after all) and the narrator isn't a hero, but you feel for him and get angry at him.  It's the story of what happens after the Bad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10038878">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hadn't realized this was the first Doctorow I'd read, but then I'd probably heard of him beforehand from movie adaptations or from his connection to The Nation magazine.  In any case, even though it's a first novel and even though it's a Western of all things, it's pretty good.  Indeed, to my know...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73694708">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this book.  I've never read E.L. Doctorow and this was the first time I'd heard of him.  Basically it's about some people in the Dakotas during the gold/silver rush days, the troubles they go through.  Definitely recommend it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not used to Doctorow sticking to one narrative vantage point, but I LOVED this.  Like 'The March,' this is very much a creation narrative, but it's parallels to the economic woes of 2008-2009 make it an especially timely read.  How this has yet to be made into a movie is beyond me.  Gripping, though...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67193968">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The antithesis of &quot;regeneration through violence.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my all time favorites.  It is a must read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gritty western novel that is something of a forerunner to the sort of thing done by Cormac McCarthy, though I liked this one a hell of a lot more than the work of McCarthy.  Really evocative and emotionally visceral.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This (his first novel?) is a more straightforward read than <em>Book of Daniel</em>, but I was still totally into it. Doctorow knows how to work some words. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This hurt to read, and made me hate people in general.  I loved Doctorow's descriptions of the light in the Dakota summer, and the winter.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not a Western fan, but this was such a well written story about a small town in the new American west......really good for the genre.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Had to read this for a contemporary lit. class. Not a big fan of E.L. Doctorow, but this is a good book.]]></body>
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