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    <body><![CDATA[More forgettable than the last book, though I was entertained enough when I read it. But I did just have to get up and look at it to remember it at all, and I still don't remember it all that well. Kind of -- is there a term for gay chick-lit? This is that. No, actually it's more like the gay versio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2324867">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[By the end of <em>True Enough</em> by Stephen McCauley, I definitely wanted to know what was going to happen with each of the characters. I do think, however, that he pulled everything together too quickly in the end, perhaps too succinctly or predictably.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Has comic moments featuring a struggling working mother (TV producer)with precocious son. Good passages but some disappoint compared to last novels.  Follow-up novel is better too. But I'd read it again anyway if I was out of McCauley novels.]]></body>
    
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