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    <body><![CDATA[After Maud Newton came down heavy this summer on Kate Christensen book recommendations, and because she's coming to read soon, I decided to give her a whirl by reading two back-to-back. With this one, I was hoping for something light but well written and addictive that I could ingest in a couple day...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5839490">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually really liked this book, but mostly because I could so easily relate to it at this point in my life.  It was one of those &quot;perfect timing&quot; books.  The protagonist, Claudia, is frustrated with her life in NYC.  She lives in a shanty of an apartment; she eats, drinks, and spends mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59127528">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Christensen’s main character, Claudia. She sort of reminded me of the directionless main character in &quot;Him, Her, Him Again&quot; but Claudia is a little more focused at being a loser.<br/><br/>    “Over the years, I’d begun to take a perverse pleasure in seeing just how bad my l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79672209">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't do justice to one of my favorite subjects- Booze- And I like cheezy chick books- but I can say not so in this case.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I read this in my early thirties, I could still relate to the struggles of a young, single woman finding her way. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had high hopes for book on drinking.  It really fell short.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like many first novels, <em>In the Drink</em> feels a little formulaic (just a tiny bit) and a little less accomplished than later works by the same author.  That said, even here Christensen creates a strangely sympathetic, chronically down-on-her-luck heroine and recreates a lovingly and closely observed Ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22420675">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Second reading of this book for me, and not as enjoyable the second time around.  The narrator didn't seem as sympathetic.  However, she did seem authentic and the situations and characters the author draws are believable.  Just got tired quickly of the immature, self-destructive behavior of the mai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69756427">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you've ever had an early, mid, or late 20s crisis, felt like your career is pointless, had a crappy boss, stuck in a life you cannot recognize, or been a trainwreck/hot mess, then Claudia Steiner will warm her way into your cynically cold heart.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a wonderful book about a late twenties gal living in NYC.  I laughed aloud at several parts and commiserated with the main character, Claudia, at several moments.  It was very well written,and I highly recommend.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, topical for me.  Probably hoping to understand things, but maybe I'll exhaust the theme someday soon.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know I read this, but I can't at all remember if I liked it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty funny but the prose was too flowery for me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A quintessential work of loser lit, the genre Kate Christensen identified in this <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/2000/07/06/loser/">salon.com article</a> and contributed to with her first three books, this being her very first. The plot, a young woman living in New York and working as an assistant and ghost-writer to a society woman, is pure chick-lit,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12974667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Claudia's blunders at work and in her personal life are told in a fresh and engaging voice.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fluff, but entertaining. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to know whether she got together with William and what happened to Jackie.  I gobbled up the end.  This is an entertaining contemporary novel, but will it last?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This rang uncomfortably true to life....<br/><br/>Also, Kate Christensen is an amazing writer!  I randomly found a paperback copy of this at Housing Works, and am so glad I picked it up.  I had the pleasure of seeing the author read from her current project later that fall at the Brooklyn Book Fes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29885667">more...</a>]]></body>
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