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  <title><![CDATA[The Thorn Birds]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;Now, 25 years after it first took the world by storm, Colleen McCullough's sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback returns to enthrall a new generation. As powerful, moving, and unforgettable as when it originally appeared, it remains a monumental literary achievement &amp;ndash;&amp;ndash; a landmark novel to be read . . . and read again! &lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1977</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Thorn Birds</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Colleen McCullough]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Shannon]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>12</votes>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 27 12:55:44 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 05 07:29:36 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've wanted to read this book for years, but I'm glad I waited till I was at a stage in my life when I might appreciate it the most (though it wasn't deliberate). I didn't know anything about the story before I started except that it's a classic Australian novel, epic in scope, and was made into a m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6901968">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46090660">
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    <location><![CDATA[Scituate, MA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1984</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 11 17:49:05 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 11 18:06:19 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Colleen McCullough is a great storyteller in the Celtic tradition continued by Maeve Binchy.  This is a book for women who want to dissolve into a story and be transported into that world.  It was such fun!  Who can forget the TV miniseries and Richard Chamberlain as the priest in love with the inco...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46090660">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21236640">
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    <location><![CDATA[Belgium]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[those looking for an engrossing holiday book]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Apr 29 06:12:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 29 06:27:33 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the books I scorned for years. Romantic fiction - I used to think - is fluff for bimbos. Since I consider myself literate and intelligent (yeah, really!) I wouldn't touch this sort of book. Bizarrely, I was not ashamed to read even the most extreme - and extremely inane - crime fictio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21236640">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4617005">
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    <name><![CDATA[KBM]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1981</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 15 19:24:01 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 15 19:52:20 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good Lord -- when did this book come out?  1978 -- I must have read it in the early 80s.  This is one of the books that defined my reading tastes afterwards.  I remember my mother reading this when it first came out.  She sat in a hardback kitchen chair in our harvest gold kitchen and just read and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4617005">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35111403">
    <user id="1402551">
    <name><![CDATA[Kathi]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 12 10:01:52 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 12 10:08:03 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't read this book when it was popular (when I was in high school) because my mother wouldn't let me - because of the affair the Priest has.  I was also banned from watching the made-for-t.v.-movie.  Well, a few months ago she was getting rid of a bunch of books &amp; asked me if I wanted any of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35111403">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26382519">
    <user id="1300864">
    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Toronto, Canada]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Fans of Epics, Love Stories]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[My Mom ]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 05 15:05:34 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 08 06:33:32 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the faintest memories I have of my childhood, is watching my Mom and Grandmother watch the miniseries, The Thorn Birds. At the time (around 3 years of age I would think), I didn't *understand* why they seemed so broken hearted, yet enchanted by what they were watching unfold on screen. I reme...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26382519">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3559831">
    <user id="223399">
    <name><![CDATA[Readerbean]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 26 08:08:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 26 08:08:03 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Thorn Birds (TTB) is about Meggie Cleary and Ralph di Brisscart. Meggie Cleary is the only girl in a Cleary family dominated by men. When Meggie is 10 the Cleary's move to Austrailia from New Zealand for a great job opportunity. At this time Meggie meets Ralph di Brisscart - a priest. Their love...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3559831">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15546549">
    <user id="624786">
    <name><![CDATA[Lisa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[romance novel lovers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Feb 15 22:24:26 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 22 19:41:46 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I confess: this is a romance novel.  I never would have read it except my mother in law gave some old version that's an unedited proof or something- nothing suspicious about the generic cover and the sheer bulk of it was sort of impressive.   I also noticed from other reviews on this site that peopl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15546549">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2253527">
    <user id="145037">
    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Branford, FL]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[gluttons for punishment]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 22 09:17:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 22 09:36:13 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book because a friend of mine had said that it was one of her favorites from childhood, and quickly realized the part it must have played in developing some of her completely nihilistic outlooks on the world. It is a great tear-jerker saga, well-written and interesting, though it could e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2253527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2923103">
    <user id="183088">
    <name><![CDATA[Chick_Flick]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Puerto Rico]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 10 18:28:31 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 12 04:52:44 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I seldom read romance novels and only picked this up because the title sounded familiar. I learned later that's because there had been a television adaptation of the novel. This foray into the genre only reaffirmed why I avoid the genre in the first place: the book is overly melodramatic; the charac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2923103">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13215638">
    <user id="733635">
    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[EVERYONE]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 22 18:58:07 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Feb 12 15:59:14 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I LOVED this book, and until I read the last paragraph I couldn't figure out WHY!  What was so utterly unexpected for me is that the reason I love this book is precisely the exact reason I would have hated just yesterday it seems?!!?  If that makes ANY sense.  I almost feel like I have a different o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13215638">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44604902">
    <user id="649707">
    <name><![CDATA[Tanya]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 27 22:20:08 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 27 22:21:32 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[What I learned? Hmmm... that I can read a novel that has 14,000 pages. LOL Just kidding. No it was a good book and I enjoyed it.]]></body>
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    <review id="7914812">
    <user id="490287">
    <name><![CDATA[Xenia0201]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Middlesex, NJ]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <date_added>Thu Oct 18 19:25:32 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 18 19:33:41 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I read this for the first time in 4th grade.  My father is an ex-Catholic priest who left the church for my mother so when the mini series came out, the world stopped in my house for an entire week.  It's an epic saga about an Irish farming family who relocated to Australia to help work at a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7914812">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7416384">
    <user id="124720">
    <name><![CDATA[x]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[94043, Iran, Islamic Republic of]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 08 04:56:11 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 09 11:36:12 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Every character says repeatedly (as in the real world) the forbidden love will be defeated by Gods but ultimately Magi won because the most beautiful song is singing by Torn Birds.<br/><br/>من حتی گاهی فکر می کنم گر چه در این کتاب مداوم تاکید می شد<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7416384">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8358052">
    <user id="253768">
    <name><![CDATA[Amy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Philadelphia, PA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 28 14:49:34 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 19 12:56:13 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[*(mary carson and ralph de briscesau- favorite characters)*<br/><br/>a story of tragic and defeated love, loves that aren't returned, and loves unable to be. a family in  rural Australian outback struggle to live and love admist tragedy and obstacles. complex characters and senstive stories . many...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8358052">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50489254">
    <user id="2145190">
    <name><![CDATA[Kambin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Johannesburg, 06, South Africa]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[lovers of good old fashioned romance]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[People who were considerably older than me]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 1983</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Mar 26 00:59:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 26 01:03:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>2</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This book was doing the rounds amongst my older cousins in about 1983 when I was about 11 years old.  I read it at that point and then later watched the tv series starring Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward when it hit South African screens about a year or so later.  I reread the book when I was in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50489254">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to admit this was one of my favorite and most memorable books of all the years I've been a reader (since I was what....? 7..?) I still remember most of the characters names, the plot, the death of Paddy in the flood, the drowning of Dane years later, the forgotten daughter, the self-righteous...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71012672">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is amazing how The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough) is still being read more than 30 years since it first saw print in 1977 and followed by the movie and the TV miniseries. I recall seeing the series in our then-B&amp;W television (don’t laugh, it WAS a long time ago), and so when I saw the paperba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69656430">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was like <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18405.Gone_With_The_Wind" title="Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell">Gone With the Wind</a> in Australia. Except the characters are a lot more holy. And no one really holds a candle to Scarlett O'Hara. This book was gripping and engaging and a page-turner. Not sure about the literary quality because it seemed a little lowbrow, not that there's anything wron...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42395856">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book suffered in comparison to [b:Gone with the Wind|18405|Gone With The Wind|Margaret Mitchell|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166913011s/18405.jpg|3358283]. I probably would have liked it better if I hadn't <em>just</em> finished that one. Because they're quire similar books, really. They're...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61059083">more...</a>]]></body>
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