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    <body><![CDATA[Always a haunting writer. Man With The Golden Arm was my first of his and I keep going back to him. Sad because I seem to forget him and then when I am looking for a new book I stumble on his work and wonder why haven't I read everything of his. I will, someday.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[mother, tell your children not to walk my way. as much as i enjoyed this work, i'm going to risk friends' favor and the assault of apples and oranges with which i will be struck when i say that i liked hubert selby's tales woeful self-loathing betterer.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had given up on fiction and hadn't read a book in months when I accidentally came across this book. This is the sort of book that makes you fall in love with reading all over again.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[just got a copy of this for the holidays from my very literary aunt and uncle along with housekeeping, which they had previously sent me and I had previously read and was lovely.]]></body>
    
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