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  <title><![CDATA[The Weekend]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Peter Cameron]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 06 04:11:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in a weekend. It's really quite good. If it doesn't make you want to flee from New York City and move straight up and into the country, I don't know what will. But then once you're there, you might realize you're surrounded by people who are lonely or dealing with some type of serio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55118346">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Chris]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Author Peter Cameron’s novel, <strong>The Weekend</strong>, is a poignant examination of friendship, intimacy and the unconventional ties that bind four individuals with clashing personalities. <br/><br/>The characters in the story try to avert disaster over a two-day period spent together in upstate New York.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51880807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8854301">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 08 15:28:36 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 13 14:48:36 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmm, I really think this book deserves 1.5 stars. It wasn't horrible, but I didn't really like it. Its title, &quot;The Weekend,&quot; is exactly about that. A review of what happened to some people over a weekend. It's like me writing a book about my weekend: I woke up, ate cereal, went for a run,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8854301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70807699">
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 10 22:05:27 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 10 22:17:52 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[from prologue: &quot;Catherine thought, perhaps if we travel together, I shall get to know them at last, for so far I have been all wrong, and they have turned out different to what I thought. How is one to know what people are like?.. Perhaps one can never know; perhaps people are uncapturable, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70807699">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57321432">
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  <date_added>Mon May 25 20:02:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 25 20:06:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was expecting a better read after having just finished Cameron's latest novel.  Took it along with me on a holiday weekend and it dampened my spirit just a bit.  The dialogue was somewhat unnatural and stilted and although I know this tied in with the larger picture, I found the characters to be b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57321432">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37124979">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 07 11:27:48 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 07 11:46:19 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading Andorra by the same author, I was a bit disappointed by this one.  While it had a similar interesting combination of journalistic frankness, pity analysis and flashes of poetic description, the context, being upstate New York (as opposed to exotic/glamorous Andorra) didn't evoke the sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37124979">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49029752">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Mar 12 08:43:18 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 12 08:45:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Saw the movie years ago. A cheap indie film with dramatic overacting and a tied-together-plot. The strings left hanging out all over the place. Also, a vaguely wishy-washy gay-straight tension that left me unsatisfied. <br/><br/>But, the book is well-written, as could be expected. <br/><br/>Oh, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49029752">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51599526">
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 05 13:39:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 21 14:53:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a breeze to read, with some really lovely, poetic passages(especially in the descriptions of natural settings and the complexities of intimate relationships,) and rich, whimsical conversations, interspersed with straightforward, unfettered prose. I was surprised that the plot could be so ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51599526">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42812450">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jan 14 22:51:22 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Deceptive in its simplicity but packs a powerful punch.  The book does a wonderful job exploring loss, letting go, and being open and available for love.  I enjoyed how the gay and straight characters were comfortable with each other in a very natural way.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="44579861">
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 27 18:21:51 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I go back to this novel every couple of years. It's one of my favorites.]]></body>
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    <review id="75279105">
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 21 13:17:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A weekend of privileged white people at a country house in upstate New York.  Much dwelling on dead lovers and tension between unlikeable friends and acquaintances ensues.  I remain unimpressed.]]></body>
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    <review id="6649944">
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 23 09:58:12 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 08 11:15:43 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't remember all the details, but the foundation of this book involves the anniversary of a loved one's death and the tension between those left behind and two strangers. For Peter Cameron fans, this will not disppoint.  ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6649944]]></url>
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    <review id="6545923">
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  <date_added>Fri Sep 21 08:39:16 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;[B]eautifully controlled horror,&quot; to quote the Library Journal review.  Indeed.]]></body>
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    <review id="14923809">
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    <body><![CDATA[slow at times..]]></body>
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