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    <body><![CDATA[From the title I thought this would be a really light-weight book, however, the depth and complexities of 2 women and their friendship over time were thoroughly explored. This is an edgy friendship book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having a group of women friends I call my best friends - women I have known forever - &quot;celebrate a 40th birthday in vegas&quot; best friends, this book was certainly a let-down.  It will create some good discussion at my book-club next month, though.  It has lots of &quot;themes&quot; woven in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9264471">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd really like to give this 2.5 stars, and then some specific parts 3.5 stars, but I guess I have to be decisive. This is a fast read and was good for my purposes (vacation reading), but I'm not sure I'd recommend it. The one aspect of women's friendship that I think the author did a good job of ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5704080">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first Martha Moody book, and I now know that it will not be my last! While I had low expectations for this book because of the laughably uncreative title (though the reader does discover that it's the only appropriate title for this book)and the cryptic, lacking synopsis on the back. Howe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65648719">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to say that I was very disappointed by &quot;Best Friends&quot; by Martha Moody. Moody does exhibit an eloquent way of writing that will spark your taste for vocabulary, but overall, the book to me seemed to be very much written like a soap opera script - long, overdone, and with so many plot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61649784">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ This book is a story about two bestfriends and their lives supporting eachother. There are two girls who met in college and are not sure how to react to eachother. Being complete opposites their kind of dredding the remainder of the year, but as time goes on they find just how much they can learn f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43521298">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I could, I'd give this book 1 1/2 stars; I'm in between not liking it and thinking it was okay. This was given to me as a Christmas gift from my best friend a couple years ago, and I finally got around to reading it. The whole theme of the story, according to the reviews I've read, is the depth a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40007729">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[100 pages before the end of this book, I was ready to give the book 4 stars.  I really liked the author's style, but didn't feel the &quot;pull&quot; to keep reading the last 100 pages.  My incentive for wrapping this book up was the new 1/2 Price Books sitting in my closet waiting to be read.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59379855">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OMG! This was the book that wouldn't end. It said some relevant things about male/female relationships as well as relationships between women, but the plot twists were odd and pointless.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good vacation read. Compelling, but didn't require keeping track of a lot of characters. I think I liked the premise of &quot;best friends for life&quot; more than I actually liked the book. Claire and Sally meet at Oberlin and initially don't have much in common. These pages chronicle their lives...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76420644">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book because it was a gift... and only because it was a gift.  Maybe I am jaded, but the &quot;dark family secret&quot; didn't even phase me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book tells the story of two college roommates who become unlikely friends. And their friendship stays with them throughout their tumultuous lives as really the only constant thing for either one of them. One is a standoffish, intelligent midwestern girl who becomes a doctor. The other is an ide...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69260835">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book.  It reminds me of &quot;Summer Sisters&quot; only it follows the friends much further in life.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My mother-in-law shared this book with me. I was excited about it because it is about a doctor from Ohio. These women become best friends when they meet as freshmen at Oberlin College - Cool, huh? Well it was one of those books that I could only read one-two chapters at a time because it dragged out...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65915035">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most boring, lame ass books ever!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author was able to capture the complexity of human relationships and the impact that those relationships have on a person's journey through life. The book touched on some disturbing topics that made me appreciate my life even more so.  It showed that a person's life may seem perfect on the outsi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48211115">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At the end of each school year in high school, I would go to the Borders near my house, make a list of all the books I wanted to read, and check them all out from the library. I put Best Friends by Martha Moody on that list around six years ago, and I just got around to reading it.<br/><br/>Moody ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55655576">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Best Friends<em> is the story of two girls who meet in college and begin a friendship that holds strong through marriage, divorce, death and birth, happiness and grief.  It is told from the point of view of Clare Mann—a restless, feisty, politically charged and sexually forward spitfire from Ohio. She...</em></em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20187225">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was okay overall. I really enjoyed the beginning and was looking forward to a long novel (500 pgs) that I'd enjoy. But after about 200 pages, I was getting a bit bored when she started hammering what Sid does for a living. Yes, pornography is a gross business to me too, but man... this author r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19824637">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[      Best Friends, by Martha Moody, was first published June 4, 2002. It was Moody’s first attempt at a novel, and a bit of a rocky one. Though, Best Friends was named a National Bestseller, the book received countless negative reviews. The story, told in first person through the main character, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5650103">more...</a>]]></body>
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