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  <title><![CDATA[The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, #1)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;B&gt;A Love Triangle of Unspeakable Horror...&lt;/B&gt;&lt;P&gt;Elena&lt;BR&gt;Searching for the ultimate thrill, she vowed to have Stefan.&lt;P&gt;Stefan&lt;BR&gt;Haunted by his tragic past, he struggled to resist her passion. &lt;P&gt;Damon&lt;BR&gt;Driven by revenge, he hunted the brother who betrayed him.&lt;P&gt;The terrifying story of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1991</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[L.J. Smith]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 03 12:18:21 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[These were some of my favorite books as a teenager.  They are about a high school student, Elena Gilbert, who is torn between two hot vampire brothers.  Melodrama ensues.  They are not the most mature books, but they are all about nostalgia for me.  Of course, as I get older, I think that a lot of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7211133">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10567940">
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    <name><![CDATA[Margot]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 17 11:18:44 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading the vampire trilogy by Stephenie Meyer, I thought I would continue my bloodthirsty fiction rampage with this older teenage vampire trilogy. Lo and behold, it's almost the same story! Oh, Stephenie Meyer, now I know how you cranked out those three fat (should have been heavily edited) b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10567940">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, this was MY Twilight before there was Twilgiht. I read this series when I was about thirteen. I was already into vampires in my  preppy goth kind of way, and this one made me say SQUEE! This book is from the early 90's, but with the Twilight phenomenon, it's now been reissued, bound with a new...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45614732">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48473421">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written long before Twilight. SMeyer's claim of never having read Vampire fiction is absurd. There are FAR TOO MANY parallel's between LJ Smith's characters and Smeyer's.<br/><br/>And when it comes down to it? SMeyer has <em>nothing</em> on LJ Smith.<br/><br/>The story is refreshing and action packed. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48473421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51076790">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 31 16:14:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[In ninth grade, my friend let me borrow this book (I might have even borrowed the rest of the series too) because she said it was great.  I remember reading this book and, more importantly, I remember really enjoying the story.  Elena and her Holloween dance Rennaissance style dress is what stands o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51076790">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44522591">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 27 10:14:04 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 26 22:56:38 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading this book for the fifth or sixth time, I still enjoyed it! It reminds me of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. <br/><br/>I have about a million positive things to say and only one negative: Elena says &quot;I love you&quot; too quickly. The fact that such a serious statement is made at suc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44522591">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31929009">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a continuation of the The Vampire diaries. The book was good, but wasn't as good as the last one in my opinion. I didn't like the fact that even though people were enemies in the book they had to work together. I think that took away from the suspence because they weren't fighting anym...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31929009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21797983">
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  <date_added>Wed May 07 13:01:00 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[For those interested in light &quot;gym&quot; reading and need a substitute for Twilight withdrawl - this may do the trick.  It's not as compelling but it's at least entertaining for the light reader.....will write more when I finish....<br/><br/>....Ok - I just finished all four in the series.  I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21797983">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44604975">
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    <name><![CDATA[Debbie]]></name>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jan 27 22:21:55 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was actually a little disappointed re-reading this book.  I remember loving the series when I first read them back in middle school.  So maybe it is just because I've grown up that the writing style does not really appeal to me as much.  Elena starts off as a really superficial character although ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44604975">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78178873">
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    <name><![CDATA[Viveia94]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chisinau, 48, Moldova]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first book starts the reader to Elena Gilbert, a popular and beautiful student in Fell's Church, Virginia, (a fictional town possibly named after the actual city of Falls Church, Virginia) and her friends Bonnie, Meredith, and Matt, along with Caroline, Elena's old friend who now is her competit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78178873">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76521213">
    <user id="1568021">
    <name><![CDATA[Kandi]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 02 15:52:13 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 02 15:56:32 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Because I can't come up with my own words for this crappy book, fellow Goodreads person Raleigh has written this review that COMPLETELY expresses all my thoughts and views on this...so I'm ganking it so I can remember exactly what I didn't like about this book.<br/><br/><em>What a waste of 2-3 hours. ...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76521213">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74506579">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book in the Vampire Diaries series.<br/><br/>I read about the new TV series based on this series and saw part of the first episode and got interested in reading the books so I picked this book and thought I would give it a try.. The book flew!!<br/><br/>It was such a fast read it w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74506579">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73584782">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[[in this book:]<br/><br/>“Are you having a good time?” Elena asked.<br/><br/>I am now. Stefan didn’t say it, but Elena knew it was what he was thinking. She could see it in the way he stared at her. She had never been so sure of her power. Except that actually he didn’t look as if he wer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73584782">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73469381">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this purely because it just got made into a TV show, and it piqued my interest. Unfortunately it failed to sustain that interest, and I finished it for the sake of finishing it. It wasn't inherently bad, it just wasn't amazing. Better than Twilight at any rate, which is just an incomprehensib...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73469381">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73052301">
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    <name><![CDATA[Raleigh]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a waste of 2-3 hours. Thankfully, it wasn't any longer than that.<br/><br/>There is absolutely nothing interesting about this book. The plot is trite. When am I going to learn to shun all vampire books? <br/><br/>Elena, the main character, has to be one of the most annoying characters. She ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73052301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70982116">
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    <name><![CDATA[Becky]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a bit slow to get going and didn't really grab me quickly enough.<br/> <br/>Elena was not a character I liked most as a main character and reading about her being the most popular girl at school who just happens to get the hottest new guy is not something I enjoy reading about. Yes the &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70982116">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69950285">
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    <body><![CDATA[Before there was <em>Twilight</em>, or &quot;True Blood&quot;, there was the <em>Vampire Diaries</em> series, soon to be a tv series on the CW. With many changes from the books, I'm sure. Oh, no, not another teen vampire series, I can hear you thinking, and yes, it has similarities to <em>Twilight</em>: a school setting, a va...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68370136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I became curious with this series after the CW displayed their first ever 'teaser trailer' for the tv show and there were outcries of a rip-off of Twilight. First off, Twilight was released in the year 2005.... The Vampire Diaries were released in 1991, fourteen years before Twilight was released an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66904200">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I decided that I needed to read this series because the previews for the TV show based on it really intrigued me.  So, I figuered that I have a couple of months before the show comes out, so I might as well read the books first.<br/><br/>This is really a typical teenage vampire novel.  I know t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62476865">more...</a>]]></body>
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