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  <title><![CDATA[The Pit: A Story Of Chicago]]></title>
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  <default_description>But Laura, preoccupied with looking for the Cresslers, hardly listened. Aunt Wess', whose count was confused by all these figures murmured just behind her, began over again, her lips silently forming the words, &quot;sixty-one, sixty-two, and two is sixty-four.&quot; Behind them the voice continued....</default_description>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 08 20:34:40 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 08 20:39:58 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As an oil trader for the past 30 years, I found this novel had incredible relevance.  Especially in one part where the trader got so confident he let his &quot;hedges&quot; expire.  The volatility and swings in markets, panicked traders, limit up/limit down, squeezes, shorts ... it's no accident tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5922368">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished this (after many starts and stops) just as the economy began to seriously tank. Overall, I'd have to say I really appreciated the detailed descriptions of Chicago at the turn of the century, descriptions of homes, streets, buildings, the changing seasons and the shifting psychologies of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30467542">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[fans of classics]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 11 02:24:57 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 17 08:47:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Please see my detailed review at Amazon <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/REGPNT2ECESWH/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm">Graceann's &quot;The Pit&quot; Review&quot;</a><br/><br/>Frank Norris is such a compelling writer.  This book was released in 1902, yet a remarkably small amount of the language is dated, and the message is as timely as ever.  The crux of the story is on specula...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46014683">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38843219">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 28 20:10:13 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 14 18:53:30 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definately dated.  I got tired of the main characters as the book developed.  I think the relationship between the two main characters could of been much richer and more developed.  They seemed as strangers throughout the entire book.]]></body>
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    <review id="4382154">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Those into historical fiction]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 10 19:17:23 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 10 19:32:44 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is about people who speculated heavily in the Chicago wheat-trade market in the early 20th century. And since no book would be worth reading without ROMANCE (or else humor), there's a good deal of that, too. I liked the way this book brought me back to my Midwest roots. I liked the author's per...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4382154">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69128933">
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 27 14:30:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 27 14:30:39 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Condition: Worn.]]></body>
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    <review id="12430784">
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book all about how your career can take over your life if you aren't careful. It was especially interesting to me because it is all about &quot;the pit,&quot; which is the Chicago Board of Trade (like the game of the same title). There's something very compelling, competitive, and consumin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12430784">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7550544">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[peeps who love chicago, and overtly symbolic melodrama]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 10 15:18:33 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Was first on Chicago Magazine's list of &quot;Books That Defined Chicago.&quot; Finally got it through the library and enjoying it immensely. I honestly need a dictionary next to me, though. It was written in 1903 and the author gives you a veritable vocabulary lesson on every page.]]></body>
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    <review id="4103599">
    <user id="250836">
    <name><![CDATA[Jen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Oak Park, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 05 08:43:47 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 05 08:46:37 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book - it combines my interest in fiction about early Chicago with my interest in fiction about gilded-age speculators and the stock market (although the time period for this one is a little later - early 1900s - and the market is commodities, grain.)]]></body>
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    <review id="17774410">
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 14 17:53:17 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 14 17:54:41 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this one to be pretty good for the time period it was written in.  It was a bit melodramatic, but I liked the story and theme.]]></body>
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    <review id="37810760">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kieran]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Nov 15 13:28:05 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Nov 15 13:30:11 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting work, with great descriptive writing (of course). Is it weird that I could relate so much to Laura Jadwin?]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37810760]]></url>
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    <review id="10524835">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Hayward, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 16 16:56:24 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 16 16:56:59 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Contemporary with <em>The Jungle</em>.]]></body>
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    <review id="22669224">
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    <name><![CDATA[mike]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed May 21 02:16:48 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[great story &amp; great writing.]]></body>
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