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  <title><![CDATA[A Perfect Vacuum]]></title>
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  <default_description>This is a collection of perfect yet imaginary reviews of nonexistent books. With insidious wit, the author beguiles us with a parade of delightful, disarmingly familiar inventions. &quot;Lem is Harpo Marx and Franz Kafka and Isaac Asimov rolled up into one and down the white rabbit's hole&quot; (Detroit News).</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stanisław Lem]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[People who think the word &quot;puma&quot; is funny, GoodReaders in general. ]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Manny Rayner]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can have a socially unfortunate sense of humor sometimes, and have gotten myself into trouble on a number of occasions with inappropriate laughing. Never was this more pronounced that when I was pregnant with my first kid and stewing in the hormones and nervousness of impending parenthood. My husb...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63102398">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 27 20:45:03 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 08 08:00:12 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Astounding. I was introduced to Lem through the Special Collections librarrian at UWM, as a means to formulate imaginary works (which is the cornerstone of my thesis). I am smitten. Lem writes with a Vonnegutian goofiness, a palpable delight in his ideas. Many of the works he describes sound SO inte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38782894">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed May 06 13:09:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[FINALLY<br/><br/>FINALLY DONE.<br/><br/>oh GOD how i SAVORED didnt want to read more than one story at a time because it is so good, so crazy good that i wished it not to end<br/><br/>but of course all good things, right?  so now i write about it.  short pieces, reviews of imaginary or impossi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50302108">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You know that problem in books and films where the plot hinges on the brilliance of an artist character but that character's work can't actually be shown (or even described) because it would shatter the illusion? A collection of fake book reviews could run into the same sort of problem. Unlike, say,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67914043">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1987</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jun 04 07:43:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A delightful idea, that surely ought to appeal to habitués of this site - a collection of reviews for books that don't exist! My favorite was the one about the guy who thinks that there are three kinds of genius. Third-class geniuses do what everyone else does, but just get there quicker. They are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38374457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <location><![CDATA[Portland, OR]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't but dipped a toe in yet, but this venture seems special.  Of particular interest to me because it is a series of reviews of fake books, and I write reviews of fake films (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.fictionalfilmclub.blogsport.com">www.fictionalfilmclub.blogsport.com</a>).  In may review this, but, obviously, I may not too.]]></body>
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    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Perfect Vacuum, wherein Lem reviews books that don't exist, including a few that literally couldn't exist. Some are awesome, others merely intriguing, all are philosophical, scientific and funny, as with all of Lem's books.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16056225]]></url>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon May 26 17:43:05 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection of reviews for imaginary books ultimately congeals into a complete work of literature. It dovetails nicely with Calvino's <em>If on a Winter's Night a Traveller</em>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22258833]]></url>
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    <name><![CDATA[Devin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[#46<br/>I've decided to use the star rating system to indicate my opinion of the quality of the cover of the book. This book had an almost entirely purple cover, which I thought was great.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9501237]]></url>
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    <review id="28943534">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jim]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book that consists solely of reviews of other books, none of which actually exist.  This book redefines high-concept.  Another weird wonder from Stanislaw Lem.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A work of genius. Particularly Personoids and Gruppenfuhrer Louis the XIV]]></body>
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