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    <body><![CDATA[I learned that in the end the good line is the one to go with...wait, I already knew that. You sort of feel sorry for the tangled up line though, and wonder whats so hot about the dot anyhow. I just love this little love story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great little book we read in my math class for Valentines Day.  A line loves a dot and discovers all of the wonderful things he can do as he trys to get her to love him.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I used to love this book and had forgotten about it till I started thinking about math books!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book for when your kids are taking a geometry class (or any other time for that matter).]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The dot and the line; a romance in lower mathematics by Norton Juster (1963)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I stole this from my mother and got it signed by the author.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very short, but a good, cute &quot;love&quot; story for what it is.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I also love the Chuck Jones short based on the book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just read this in 2007 (thanks to seeing it on Goodreads users' shelves); wish I had been able to read the original 1963 edition. I wasn’t sure what bookshelves to put this book on; I was tempted to create a new shelf.<br/><br/>This is a very inventive story about a love triangle between a dot, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6828848">more...</a>]]></body>
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