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    <body><![CDATA[Based on having read this book and The Shipping News, it is clear to me that Annie Proulx is an author as concerned with place as with plot.  Both books are as much, or perhaps even more, about the settings in which they take place, as the characters who inhabit them.  Proulx has a fondness for remo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38890652">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Before reading That Old Ace in the Hole, one should read the first sentence.  “In late March Bob Dollar, a young, curly-headed man of twenty-five with the broad face of a cat, pale innocent eyes fringed with sooty lashes, drove east along Texas State Highway 15 in the panhandle, down from Denver t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35611536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Proulx, Annie.  THAT OLD ACE IN THE HOLE.  (2002).  ***.  A young man, Bob Dollar, is just out from college, but still doesn’t know what he wants to do with his life – other than the fact that he doesn’t want to follow in his father’s footsteps and work as a watchmaker.  After taking a serie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72981074">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's plenty that's low-down &amp; dirty here, but the sheer lack of misanthropy surprised me.  Is Proulx getting soft?  I LIKE it.  There's some clunky backstory &amp; stilted exposition, esp at the beginning, but I never much cared because it all engaged me.<br/><br/>I picked up this book just after f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60428697">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I finished it!  Mostly out of respect for the person who sent it to me, who usually recommends good books.  So some people like this book, maybe it was just poor timing for me...  Anyway, it is about the Texas/Oklahoma panhandle country.  I think I would have preferred to read non-fiction abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39582849">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Annie Proulx does such a good job of interpreting the landscape she writes about. I knew nothing about the area of Texas she was covering in this book, and came away feeling like I'd been there (which confirmed for me that I never will actually go there). ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I expected to like this book more than I did - on my aunt Jeanne's recommendation, and considering how much I loved The Shipping News.  But I found it hard to get into this story about hapless Bob Dollar, raised by his junkstore running uncle after his parents ran away to obscurity in Alaska.  Owing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66591223">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't expect to like this, but I quickly fell in love with the characters and the story. The book had the feel of an oral history, everyone having a different take on events, contradicting one another. <br/>I thought the book was going to end of a cheesy yay Old Town America kick, but I don't th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60173191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book!  Coming from a smallish town and having spent time in western Texas this book is pretty believable.  I do, however, believe it was lacking depth, but a great story none the less.  I like her writing style, my observation is that she likes lists.  Everytime you turn around she has lists of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80009001">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Annie Proulx experience, and I was definitely impressed. I want to say that she has a great talent of mixing the sacred and the profane in an endearing way, at least in this book. And really, she leaves the assignment of &quot;sacred&quot; or &quot;profane&quot; to you. Do you pick...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74138554">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Proulx is a master of voice and place. If you read some sentences of this book out loud, you'd sound right at home in the Texas panhandle, where she sets this book.<br/><br/>Despite her brilliance, I can't say this book was really a page turner or that I overwhelmingly enjoyed it. I certainly appr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28834132">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So this was a borderline two star book, but Proulx's ability to create a sense of place, characters, and lively dialogue elevated it to a three star work-just barely.  Bob, the twenty-something main character, seems just a placeholder around which to weave the fruits of Proulx's extensive research o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42707304">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book, even though there were some flaws in the conclusion of the story.  I think the main reason I loved this story is set in the area where I grew up and many of the descriptions of the area are quite accurate.  Though I disagree with how some of the characters were depicted, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4744530">more...</a>]]></body>
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