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  <title><![CDATA[The Human Comedy (An Hbj Modern Classic)]]></title>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1961</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[William Saroyan]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 24 19:10:56 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 24 19:12:51 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i have just reread this beautiful little masterpiece and fell in love with saroyan and this book all over again. i am now going to pick up his short stories and marvel at those.  i say, do this now. you can read it in a weekend.  short, sweet, tidy, and beautiful, it is a lovely novel which touches ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6737406">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 07 20:51:08 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 12 13:38:09 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found my grandmother's 1943 edition of this book on my dad's bookshelf.  I enjoyed the story of a California family during World War 2:  the dad has passed away, the older brother is fighting in the war, the teenage brother delivers telegraph messages such as messages telling mothers that their so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39566533">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41663991">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 02 18:32:05 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 23 14:25:37 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Nothing means anything to me. I don't like people. I don't like being near them. I don't trust them. I don't like the way they live or talk or the things they believe, or the way they push each other around.</em><br/><br/>I first read this 10 years when I first moved to Fresno. At the time I remember l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41663991">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38404202">
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Nov 22 15:31:06 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this to help my son with his high school reading assignment, and enjoyed it more than he did. The setting is a small fictional California town during the early years of World War II. The story centers around a telegraph office. Homer, a 14-year-old, gets a job delivering telegrams. His older ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38404202">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12341761">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sonky]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Tacoma, WA]]></location>        
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Geoff Huntington]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Wed Feb 06 19:33:44 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 12 12:50:57 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 06 19:33:30 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jerked my tears at every chapter. Simple, beautiful writing. Emotional but not sentimental. A blend of America praise and protest.]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="70454910">
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    <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 1963</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 08 06:17:36 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 08 06:20:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In college, I was a &quot;reader.&quot;  This means I took 20-minute oral reports of various point value (depending on length, complexity, etc.) from Freshmen.  This book was short and quick and only a couple points, so I got LOTS of reports on it at the end of each semester.<br/><br/>But really g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70454910">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53111458">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Apr 18 07:04:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 18 07:08:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In a rare occurrence, I actually enjoyed the film version better than the book.  Mickey Rooney really makes this story come alive.  In fact, I stopped the film because I was enjoying it, and wanted to read the book first.  Did so, then went back to the film.  <br/><br/>The book does contain Saroya...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53111458">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52371715">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 12 04:54:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 12 04:59:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was written during WW2 and there are plenty of Rockwell-esque moments here--boys running around a small town with colorfully-nicknnamed chums, creaky old guy running the local telegraph station, women with big hair attending their monthly social gathering. But there's real depth here as we...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52371715">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32023616">
  <user id="1171006">
    <name><![CDATA[Martina]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Grand Rapids, MI]]></location>        
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    <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 04 14:00:02 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 04 14:00:05 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count>2</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Some authors write entertaining books, and some are true storytellers who transport you to a world of new acquaintances, friends, thoughts, and emotions. Needless to say which category Saroyan belongs to. Among many great books I've encountered only few that had the ability to transform me in the wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32023616">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26695139">
  <user id="1137677">
    <name><![CDATA[Jrad]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Gainesville, NY]]></location>        
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    <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Everyone, People needing a reminder of hope in a dark world]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[My Mentor]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 08 16:45:20 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 09 19:57:10 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an incredibly delightful yet sorrowful tale of the Macauley family in Ithaca, California.  It looks primarily at two characters, Homer and Ulysses.  The two are the middle and youngest boys of the family.  The Macauleys are a poor, but good family in the town.  Homer, at the age of 14 is lea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26695139">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67505037">
  <user id="2629284">
    <name><![CDATA[Yağmur]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Ordu, 55, Turkey]]></location>        
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    <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Aug 15 11:14:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 15 11:23:52 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book because it was dedicated to Mother Takhooi Saroyan whose heart is full with the longing of my country.Saroyans is an Ermenian family from Bitlis;a city in the region of East Anatolia in Turkey.I do noknow whether I am translating right but I like these lines too much:&quot;Ithaca,Ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67505037">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35600867">
  <user id="81116">
    <name><![CDATA[Sophia]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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    <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 17 19:35:10 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 21 16:50:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My father gave this to me in high school, and I reread it often enough that it made it onto my very small bookshelf in college, but funnily enough, he mentioned it the other day and I realized I'd forgotten all about it. This time around, I could see how it balanced between Salinger and Steinbeck, w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35600867">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41857773">
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    <name><![CDATA[Valory]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fairfield, CA]]></location>        
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    <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1964</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 04 12:42:15 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 04 12:48:34 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book when I was about 9 years old; I didn't know anything about it, but picked it up in my elementary school library.  It made a deep impression on me.  I think that I was aware, on some level, that this was true literature, something that I would have more experience with as I grew olde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41857773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39406462">
  <user id="1778704">
    <name><![CDATA[Kim]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Provo, UT]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 05 17:31:21 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 06 09:51:13 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only book from my high school English classes I have willingly reread.  It has a few sad moments, but plenty of fun ones as well.  P.S. If your English teacher asks you what the main character's good luck charm is, don't say egg or you will get it wrong.  It is &quot;hard-boiled egg.&quot;  Stup...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39406462">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53171195">
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    <name><![CDATA[Anne]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Sausalito, CA]]></location>        
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    <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Apr 18 18:06:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 18 18:06:08 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This isn’t exactly a comedy, but made me smile even as it teetered on the edge of sappiness.  It’s written in a deliberately naive style, and makes some wonderful observations.]]></body>
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    <review id="46704574">
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    <name><![CDATA[Anne]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[There's so much there. It's a great story about a family in California during WWII, if that's all you want it to be. It doesn't necessarily insist upon itself ... but it can.]]></body>
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    <review id="47815651">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most amazing books that I have ever read in my life, so good!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(This is not my edition, but I seem to have no other option.)<br/><br/>I read The Human Comedy back in 1964 or'65.  I remember it as a very moving story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well written story about a boy in a small town setting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jeyamohan's reco.]]></body>
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