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  <title><![CDATA[Shane]]></title>
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  <default_description>A stranger rode out of the heart of the great glowing West, into the small Wyoming valley in the summer of 1889. 	It was Shane, who appeared on the horizon and became a friend and guardian to the Starrett family at a time when homesteaders and cattle rangers battled for territory and survival.  Jack Schaefer's classic novel illuminates the spirit of the West through the eyes of a young boy and a hero who changes the lives of everyone around him.  Renowned artist Wendell Minor provides stunning images and a moving introduction to this new edition of Shane, the ultimate tale of the Western landscape.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1949</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jack Schaefer]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book I grew up with, having it read to me as a boy. It is an American classic and considered one of the great Westerns in league only with Lonesome Dove.<br/><br/>This is THE novel from which the wester movie genre was created. The dark hero with a mixed and unstated past, the western ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/834806">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The novel is Shane and Jack Schaefer sets up a quiet but fantastic story of the West, when the land was no longer as spacious, where the cattle could no longer freely roam, when the cowboy and farmer had yet to become friends and when Shane came.<br/><br/>Shane is the archtype: a mysterious strang...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46707503">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book!  I read this as a requirement in high school when I had to compare the movie and the book.  The book was way better because it was far more deep, secretive, and real.  The characters have an appealing depth to them, and the plot is intriguing.  As one could easily tell, I haven't j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67800156">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I knew I would enjoy this book before I read it. After all, one of the best western movies of all time is based on the story. I never get tired of watching the Alan Ladd film classic directed by George Stevens, with a perfectly chosen cast. Especially noteworthy is Jack Palance, billed as Walter Jac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63357581">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1975</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book to my son more than 20 years after I read it for the first time in high school.  Here's why:<br/><br/>This book is a mystery western that you are never allowed to know.  The characters were developed through the eyes of the narrator who is a child, headspun with admiration by a st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60922707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68916850">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1973</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the white man's connection to Native American claims that nature's metaphors are literal manifestations of who we are in our core.<br/><br/>This is an excellent piece, taken from the eyes of a mother and a wife who is racing through every day.  She gathers perspective, a part of herself, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68916850">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51973207">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA['Shane' is a little shopworn for me, having seen the movie countless times.  The film is quite faithful to the book, so much so that I could not re-image Shane while reading as anyone other than Alan Ladd.  It was also probably a little flatter and paler in the shadow of the other YA Western classic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51973207">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69484454">
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was very impressed with this book.  Also surprised that I waited so long before finally reading it.  This has always been one of my favorite western movies, and I was delighted to see that the movie followed the book very closely.  I really enjoyed that it was told from the POV of the young boy, B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69484454">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69892924">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/257837.Shane" title="Shane by Jack Schaefer">Shane</a>was a good book, though the western genre is usually not one I care to read.  It was about good vs. evil, and  the psychology of male pride vs. a man who got his strength and power not from a weapon but from within himself.   Shane was the ultimate good-guy cowboy.  He carefully considered the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69892924">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 01 00:00:00 -0700 1993</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in class, never believing that I could actually like what I perceived to be a Western. And yet, this book is definitely a classic. It's not a long read, but it's a good one, and Mifflin is master at creating characters of depth and complexity. It's also one of the few books where th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51490361">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69312199">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've just finished it and, I must admit, that it won me round.  I really liked the mother (she had spirit and reminded me a little of Mrs March in[ book:Little Women|1934] and even grew to like Shane. Although, wouldn't say he's my favourite literary character. I like its sparse writing style and it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69312199">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51045015">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first western! I don't think I'm going to become a fan, but I do love well-written family stories. At its core, 'Shane' is a family story. It's about a family that embraces a mysterious stranger who in turn becomes the family's friend and guardian. The book is definitely anti-violence an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51045015">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43596096">
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  <date_added>Mon Jan 19 11:44:40 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I suppose I shouldn't mock those fan fiction-y Austen books, because I wrote a &quot;sequel&quot; like that myself, for <em>Shane</em>.  This was in seventh grade, and we were allowed to either write an essay or a short story continuing the book.  Naturally, I chose the latter.  My teacher said it was brilli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43596096">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the classic Western. A dying breed. Strong silent, honor bound, gunslinger type of guy. A good read.<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/257837.Shane?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review"><img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1173209238m/257837.jpg" alt="Shane" class="escapedImg"/></a> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/257837.Shane?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Shane</a> by <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/150701.Jack_Schaefer">Jack Schaefer</a><br/><br/><br/>  <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32236036?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">&lt;h3&gt;My review</a><br/>  This is the classic Western. A dying breed. Strong silent, honor bound, gunslinger type of guy. A good read.<br/>  <br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1237067?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View a...</a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32236036">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The western I chose to read for my book club, Shane, an outsider without a past comes to an newly hatched settlement in Wyoming to build a better future. A true gunfighting, fist fighting, cattle roping western, this story reads more like the characterization of this one man, who despite odds helps ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63063154">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53291264">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is at or near the top of most lists of the Best Western Novels, so I thought I'd branch out and read it. This may be blasphemous to Western aficionados, but I was a bit disappointed. My reaction after finishing it was, &quot;That's it?&quot; Perhaps my expectations were too high, or maybe ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53291264">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I adored this book. It was all that a book should be. I admit at first I was not happy that it was told from the child's point of view because I sort of felt deprived of all the facts. However, that actually made the book better because I was left to put together the pieces of what the child saw but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49728224">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gifted to me by a near perfect stranger who couldn't believe I'd seen the movie but not read the source material, I started to read with some hesitancy, but quickly came to enjoy it. The writing is surprisingly good, and its basis as a seminal work in the western genre makes sense to me now: the gun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76118587">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 13 16:58:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 15 17:19:19 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hi. Clicked on this edition of Shane in my goodreads account? Sorry, I read another edition of the same book. Thank you for your interest in my review; it is not at this location but is in the other Shane edition under my name. Sorry for the confusion; I had clicked on this hardcover edition before ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63348035">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once again, I found this one on tape.  I think there was a TV show, but I never saw it.  Still, it reminds me of all those TV westerns that I loved as a child: the skilled gunman, the hardworking honest folk, no good villians.  I was suprised to find that it was first published in England, which jus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38694743">more...</a>]]></body>
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