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  <title><![CDATA[Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely &amp; Simply in a Troubled World]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1987</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Helen Nearing]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Aug 26 16:30:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Re-reading this book reaffirms my desire to live the Jeffersonian dream.  I am not sure that I would want to (or need to) reach the extent of their austerity, and nor do I buy into their Marxism or veganism.  That being said, there are practical aspects that are commendable about not keeping animals...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69010987">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32225612">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mykle]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Unabombers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 06 22:25:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Aside from their politics, aside from their philosophy, their ingenuity, their pioneering veganism and their unity of purpose, I was most impressed, and amused even, by the Nearing's regularly interspersed expressions of irritation with their neighbors, and the hippies who descended on their propert...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32225612">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32217189">
    <user id="65329">
    <name><![CDATA[Elly]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Portland, OR]]></location>        
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[The Whole Earth Catalog, I think.]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 06 19:55:04 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 06 20:08:10 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been funny reading this book again after being so fascinated by it as a teenager. The Nearings' politics and extreme orderliness and intentionality don't excite me quite so much as they used to, but all the minute technical details they share are even more fascinating. They were serious planner...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32217189">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51913401">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mo]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Columbia, MO]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 08 05:00:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 01 18:26:19 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[For the past few years I have been slowly working towards the day that my partner and I will be able to buy a piece of land, build a cob cottage, and do our best to move towards a more self-sufficient lifestyle, and this book provides plenty of inspiration and know-how for anyone with similar inclin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51913401">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77091214">
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    <name><![CDATA[Deborah]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 08 07:23:20 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 08 07:30:10 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic guide to self sufficiency. It was a good reminder of the benefits of remaining connected to nature and how much we can do for ourselves should we choose to.  I understood it better for having read it following a vacation in Vermont - where the book was written.]]></body>
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    <review id="64624599">
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    <name><![CDATA[Catharine]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Warner, NH]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 23 05:07:17 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 10 10:07:39 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though this was written in the fifties and lived from the 30's to 50's it mirrors so many of the books that have been recently released about food and nutrition.  It also goes into other details about how to live in a self-sustaining way without.  The major barrier to this kind of lifestyle in the p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64624599">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59906504">
    <user id="2251218">
    <name><![CDATA[Rick]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Nacogdoches, TX]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 16 11:33:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 29 17:36:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this back in 1972 and enjoyed their long-range planning and building. It inspired me to build my first stone fireplace...it'll be interesting to see how it reads thirty-seven years later.<br/>...I still found the book interesting but their PETA-like views regarding the use of animals and pet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59906504">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38552300">
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    <name><![CDATA[Martinxo]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Ely, The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Nov 24 13:29:23 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting book, especially considering it was written (and lived) during the 1930s depression in the US.  Some wonderful moments but the austerity of it all, oh my!  ]]></body>
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    <review id="43125254">
    <user id="1128366">
    <name><![CDATA[Andrew]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jan 15 09:19:07 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book.  Favorite quote - &quot;Well, they may be socialists but they do have good ideas.&quot;  I couldn't agree more.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="22754487">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu May 22 10:12:34 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 22 10:23:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most important books of my teenage years--now turns out to fit me well in adulthood too. Helen &amp; Scott Nearing are blacklisted (they were Communists) in the early 1930s to move to rural Vermont to establish a life where &quot;a year's livilihood in return for half a year's bread labor.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22754487">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18818815">
    <user id="621202">
    <name><![CDATA[Meg]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Portland, OR]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 27 21:45:30 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Indescribably inspiring. The original back to the land former city-folk homesteader guide, and still so much more useful wisdom than most tomes of a similar nature. They had stuff figured out way way before we did, during the age of our most rapid rationalization of agriculture and indeed culture in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18818815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15073692">
    <user id="888554">
    <name><![CDATA[Josh]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cottage Grove, OR]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 10 13:34:33 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 10 13:36:28 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[People who take their life seriously and morally. People way ahead of their time in that tremendous period of upheaval at the beginning of the century and inspiring the back-to-the-land movement, being its forerunner four decades ahead of its time. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15073692]]></url>
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    <review id="17282910">
    <user id="965970">
    <name><![CDATA[Geoffrey]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Canada]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like Good Work, this is another seminal book for me. I've learned more about the Nearings in the intervening years and my admiration has been tarnished, but I'd still recommend this to anyone questioning the sanity of the world around them.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17282910]]></url>
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    <review id="17682097">
    <user id="971230">
    <name><![CDATA[Caroline]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Salt Lake City, UT]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Mar 13 11:06:17 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, this book is very hands-on. So, if you're looking for a novel about building your own house, this isn't it. However, if you want to know how this couple made their subsistence lifestyle, then read on. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17682097]]></url>
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    <review id="66934270">
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    <name><![CDATA[Renee]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Ashland, OR]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful writing on the meaning and value of self-sufficient country living (in Vermont, in the 1960s). Super detailed technical information about house-building. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66934270]]></url>
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    <review id="9191476">
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    <name><![CDATA[Emily]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Homesteading socialists in Vermont and Maine in the 1930s.]]></body>
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    <review id="14217509">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ginger]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my many simple living - back to basics books.]]></body>
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