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    <body><![CDATA[This is an incredible story of an African-American young man growing up and pursuing his education during the turbulent sixties. My mom recommended this book to me, which she hadn't read since the year it was published sometime in the sixties. <br/><br/>Written during the period during which it ta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4498536">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[my mentor recommended this book to me and stated, &quot;this is the besk book i have ever read.&quot; coming from someone who loved kingsolver, plath and salinger, this really meant something to me.  this is a wonderful novel that touched me in many ways, it is well written and would be interesting ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5631675">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. I first read this as a teenager and remember it being one of my all time favorite books. That said, as an adult, I couldn't remember it at all, so I decided to reread it. Part of me was so disappointed. Not with the writing.......for that alone I would give it 5 stars. I just wanted it to be mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3359247">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book! It is the story of a black man born in New Orleans during the Great Depression. It is his life story and goes through the Civil Rights movement. I learned things I didn't know about this time in history and it made me step back and reassess my own prejudices. This is a long book, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34198674">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1977</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a contradiction in terms for me, like a lot of woman my age I read this when in the early 70's. it was first published in 1966. its the story of David Champlin an african american growing up in New Orleans in the 50's/60's. Really engaging charactors.<br/><br/> My entire book club re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69287732">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was on the bottom of an extra-credit reading list my freshman year of high school.  For a 14-year-old white girl living a very insulated life, this book was a world-shaker.  I still refuse to believe it's a novel - the story was so vivid the characters will always be to me, more than fiction.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about an interacial relationship which was pretty controversial in the 60s.  I just got drawn in by the story and couldn't put the book down.  It covers many years which was the kind of story I liked at the time.  I often wonder if I still love this book now.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is with out a doubt my favorite book of all time.  I read it first in High School--lost if for a while and rediscovered it in the early 80's and have read it at least once every year since.  Powerful and moving--I like to give it as a gift.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I first read this book way back in the 8th grade. It was such a moving book that I went out and bought it for my mother and we both have re-read it more than once. It is a very gripping book.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Five Smooth Stones]]>
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    <![CDATA[Interracial romance.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[My mother had to hide this from me in high school--I was supposed to be studying but i couldn't stop reading.  This was the first book that changed my life, the first book that made real a world beyond my sheltered, all-white suburban experience.  It's also an insanely romantic love story, which mad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51328084">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1978</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for the first time in about 1978.  I was so totally absorbed by the characters that they became my friends.  David, Gramps, Sara, the Prof...so real in my life.  And, as all, old and really dear friends do, they left me a different person than before I met them.<br/><br/>I re-read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40484416">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh!  I just love this book.  So much spirit and it is quite a journey to grow up with this guy.  LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hands down my favorite book. Hard to find (especially since it is now out of print) but definitley worth it. ]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was, i think, an accurate depiction of a young black man's struggle to find his own direction when straddling the worlds of an impoverished childhood in the south, and an harvard educated lawyer in the north. his interactions with his grandfather, his mentor, and his friends lead to in-dep...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66247305">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Interracial romance.]]>
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 12 20:46:41 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorites.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;David Champlin is a black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans who achieves great success and then sacrifices everything to lead his people in the difficult, day-by-day struggle of the civil rights movement. Sara Kent is the beloved and vital white girl who loved David from the moment she first saw him, but they struggled over David's belief that a marriage for them would not be right in the violent world he had to confront. Likening the struggle of black Americans to the “five smooth stones” the biblical David carried against Goliath in lieu of arms, this novel’s range encompasses decades and continents—but that range is insignificant compared with the intimate picture of its hero’s irresistible warmth and inner conflicts. First published in 1966, this epic has become one of the most loved American bestsellers.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I seem alone in not loving this book.  I found the relationship between the two main characters too melodramatic.  On the other hand, it was fascinating to me as I was the same age as the main characters during the years that the novel takes place.  It was also a rude awakening. As a liberal, northe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81864600">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Interracial romance.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[wonderful book]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Interracial romance.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The cover of Five Smooth Stones describes the story as &quot;A monumental novel of forbidden love.&quot; It purports to be the story of a marriage between a black man and a white woman during the civil rights movement. But the fact is, it is much more a novel of the civil rights movement; the relati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68091332">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Five Smooth Stones]]>
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    <![CDATA[Interracial romance.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first read this book in high school, it became one of my favorites and the insights I gained from it really changed my way of thinking.  I've since read it several times, but I think my perspective has changed since I've gotten older.  I love it because it's a great commentary on the struggle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11925463">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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