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  <title><![CDATA[Sombrero Fallout]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1978</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Brautigan]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Nov 25 20:33:57 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 25 20:38:21 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[any book that starts every other chapter with &quot;Meanwhile, in the waste paper basket&quot; is okay by me.<br/><br/>&quot;I will be very careful the next time I fall in love, she told herself. Also, she had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38670245">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reads like a diamond with 187 pages glued on it.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An American humorist, without any discernable sense of humor, loses his Japanese lover. He writes the beginning of a story in which a cold sombrero falls from the sky, but throws it into the wastebasket. Unknown to him, as he frets about his loss and obsesses over a single strand of long black hair,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49873183">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jan 23 17:50:18 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A successful American writer breaks up with his Japanese girlfriend of two years.  Distraught and depressed, he begins writing a novel about a sombrero that falls out of the sky.  He tears the first page of the ms. to pieces, to no avail: &quot;They seemed to have a life of their own.  It was a big ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13332444">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1979</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 18 21:14:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first time I read this I was in sophomore French class.  I got caught when I couldn't stifle my laughter as I read about  the National Guard shooting the ears off the small town librarian.]]></body>
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    <review id="66949648">
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 11 08:35:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 11 08:36:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It felt good to read this book.  I can tell you how much I liked it; but that's not what's important.  What I really want you to know is that it felt good.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66949648]]></url>
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    <review id="46101967">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 11 19:48:05 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just A LITTLE too much about the sombrero...]]></body>
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    <review id="38671715">
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  <date_added>Tue Nov 25 20:53:33 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of the best books EVER!!!!]]></body>
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    <review id="76852621">
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 05 15:47:41 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god]]></body>
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    <review id="59414288">
    <user id="2284759">
    <name><![CDATA[Anthony]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 12 11:06:38 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[imaginative, gentle..]]></body>
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    <review id="6182018">
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 13 21:31:51 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[did you ever take one of those naps on a warm saturday afternoon where you kept waking up and (even though you knew you probably had something that required conscious attention) remembering the last delicious remnant of an intriguingly spacious dream that you just had to drift back into, exploring r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6182018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70156030">
    <user id="2699567">
    <name><![CDATA[Nathan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[pretty close to &quot;the abortion&quot; in terms of my favorite brautigan novel.]]></body>
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    <review id="11029258">
    <user id="712508">
    <name><![CDATA[Liz]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 26 09:29:49 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 26 09:32:33 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Richard Brautigan.  I would be hard pressed to choose a favorite, but this one is definitely in the top five.  It's a light easy read with an ironic twist, Brautigan at his finest.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11029258]]></url>
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    <review id="22735407">
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    <name><![CDATA[andrew]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Detroit, MI]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone with a spare couple of hours]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Thu May 22 00:14:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 12 20:09:36 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here, the madness of heartbreak in all of its idiotic lachrymose grandeur is painted with the refined touch of a most delicate magical (sur)realist. Beautiful, funny, moving stuff.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22735407]]></url>
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    <review id="19703107">
    <user id="522127">
    <name><![CDATA[Kirsten]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Apr 08 00:03:27 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this at a very young age (picked up from a garage sale) and was blown away by the absurdity of the story and brautigan's wonderful use of metaphor. One of my favorites.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="25833557">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mariola]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 29 11:53:05 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a typical Brautigan. It involves love or lack there of. Not everyone saw the world like Brautigan but those who could appreciate the way he turns a phrase.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25833557]]></url>
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    <review id="38110833">
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    <name><![CDATA[Erica]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one was another series of misadventures that didn't stick in my mind well, but being Brautigan, I know I had a good time reading it.]]></body>
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    <review id="19996255">
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    <body><![CDATA[If you haven't read this Richard Brautigan, then you should try him out.  I think this is my favorite of his.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Such a strange story of how a sombrero falling from the sky caused chaos and distraction to all those present.]]></body>
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