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  <title><![CDATA[Great Jones Street]]></title>
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  <default_description>The narrator of this novel is Bucky Wunderlick, a Dylan-Jagger amalgam who finds he's gone as far as he knows how. Mid tour he leaves his rock band and holes up in a dingy East Village apartment, in Great Jones Street. The plot revolves around his retreat and a drug designed to silence dissidents.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1973</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Great Jones Street</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Don DeLillo]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Stuart]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[dark people]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 02 13:48:46 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 02 13:52:00 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is very dark. not as dark as i expected. has a 4 page riff on &quot;pornography for children&quot; vs: &quot;childrens pornography&quot; that had me laughing way too loud on an amtrak train. ]]></body>
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    <review id="36217681">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nate]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Past or present LES residents and disillusioned rock stars.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 25 23:32:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 26 00:50:48 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A quietly unnerving downward spiral. <br/><br/>In his ongoing survey of modern America, DeLillo's third book saw him looking at art and commerce through the lens of rock music and celebrity. One gets the sense that the narrator, rock star Bucky Wonderlick, having fled the stage mid-tour and retrac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36217681">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32116062">
    <user id="1499432">
    <name><![CDATA[Billy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 05 14:00:42 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 05 14:01:29 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Not only is this book a remnant of the past, it is a remenant that is achingly birthing itself and has been, in the pop culture since 2000, finding new the voice of nihilism and &quot;the void&quot; to the youth culture.<br/><br/>Back when Great Jones Street lacked an ATM and Country Blue Gr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32116062">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="27205807">
    <user id="700282">
    <name><![CDATA[Kirstie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[NYC natives, fans of experimental fiction, surreality, an explorations of nihlism. ]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 14 09:16:44 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 14 09:29:33 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one really deserves 3 1/2 stars and I'm also grading it somewhat relatively to Don DeLillo's other novels and it does pale a bit in comparison.  The main premise of this is that a big rock star lead singer gets bogged down within the realm of the mass consciousness and retreats unexpectantly an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27205807">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27205807]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="5541119">
    <user id="323130">
    <name><![CDATA[Aaron]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Champaign, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 02 13:42:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 02 13:42:34 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don Delillo's third novel proves to be a good read, though it's one of his weaker efforts. Delillo's best works are about subtext, not the story he's ostensibly telling. This novel, with its rather straighforward story arc, winds up being a bit of a disappointment to readers overly familiar with his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5541119">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5541119]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="41075719">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jessica]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seaford, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 28 06:13:21 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 09 07:08:49 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>1/2</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Found this book on my shelf with a post-it stuck halfway through. I must have started reading it, though couldn't for the life of me remember what it was about. How could I have put down a book by the author of the great <em>White Noise</em>? <br/><br/>I'll tell ya how: it sucks. I'm about halfway through ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41075719">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41075719]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="70029557">
    <user id="137869">
    <name><![CDATA[Lizard]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 04 07:41:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 04 07:47:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as White Noise... meandering... I thought it would be more of an allegory on fame and the concept of the underground, but found few insights.  The take-home morsels were: 1) the conversation about the cultural &quot;underground&quot; being a farce in light of the governmental underground...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70029557">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70029557]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="24544548">
    <user id="775153">
    <name><![CDATA[Ann]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 30 17:31:43 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 15 09:21:54 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 30 17:31:43 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVE VACATION! I can actually finish a book. Anyway, this one is like Crying of Lot 49 Lite, which is alright for holiday I guess. The drug/rockstar/paranoia plot is a tight draw but he just ends up hitting you over the head with it. Really, by the last chapter I was just looking forward to gettin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24544548">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24544548]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="50887056">
    <user id="895306">
    <name><![CDATA[Emily]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 29 23:14:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 22 13:52:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably as close to a Hollywood novel as DeLillo will ever write. Not bad, but I still find that I like his later novels better, White Noise and later. This one deals with a rock star, fame, his awareness of his own effect on his fans and the culture in general. Written in 1973, it has that frequen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50887056">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="44135866">
    <user id="309598">
    <name><![CDATA[Julia]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 23 20:58:55 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 23 21:00:47 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best DeLillo.  Even if I still don't understand the ending.  Why?  1) Bucky Wunderlich.  2) The jacket  3) Opel  4) The long-lost Bowery  5) the firehouse  6) rock &amp; roll.  In no particular order.  There can be no hierarchy.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44135866]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="1161196">
    <user id="82766">
    <name><![CDATA[Mike]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Carol Stream, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Fri May 11 08:08:07 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 11 08:36:07 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ok, so this book had me totally confused.  the back cover says it's &quot;the best rock n roll novel ever written!&quot;  so...i was expecting a novel about a rock star doing rock star things.  it was far from this.  sure, it included it's fair share of sex, drugs and song lyrics, but what i wasn't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1161196">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1161196]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="21713098">
    <user id="781567">
    <name><![CDATA[Eric]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 06 11:59:50 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 06 11:59:52 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A pleasant surprise. DeLillo was one of the first &quot;serious&quot; authors I read. The Names, Libra, and Mao II were favorites from college. But after Underworld I thought maybe I had outgrown him and his postmodern leanings, as much as I loved that opus novel, too. But &quot;Jones Street&quot; i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21713098">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21713098]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="65731316">
    <user id="1652316">
    <name><![CDATA[Michael]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Okatie, SC]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 31 21:28:00 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 31 21:28:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Brilliant ... deeply shocking ... Looks at rock music, nihilism, and urban decay.&quot; Diane Johnson, NYRB. IMHO Pee-pee-maw-maw ... kah-kah.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65731316]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="73083028">
    <user id="222451">
    <name><![CDATA[Molly]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 01 06:13:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 20 18:06:53 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has issues (most egregiously having to do with the narrator and his wildly inconsistent voice), but I truly loved the upstairs neighbor/writer/pornographer character, and this book is occasionally hilarious in the way that White Noise is (and no other DeLillo that I've read). ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73083028]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="59603902">
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    <name><![CDATA[Candace]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fort Worth, TX]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 14 07:01:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 14 07:02:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty decent book.  The characters were interesting.  The plot was good.  I enjoyed it.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59603902]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="3387269">
    <user id="208908">
    <name><![CDATA[Jordan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Austin, TX]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[dudes and chicks]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 22 16:29:05 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 30 20:39:25 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd read White Noise prior to Great Jones Street, and it was surprising to see a few connections between the two books, especially given the time between the two.  I liked the themes of supersaturation of a personality into a society, the ensuing turmoil, questions regarding personal identity versus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3387269">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3387269]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="57730916">
    <user id="2334771">
    <name><![CDATA[John]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Fri May 29 07:24:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 29 07:24:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My second favorite DeLillo book, after White Noise]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57730916]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="18526970">
    <user id="90786">
    <name><![CDATA[Lee]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Philadelphia, PA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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    <body><![CDATA[Source material, it would seem, for a pair of my favorite books.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been &quot;reading&quot; this book for over a year now. I really want to finish it because a dear friend sent it to me for my birthday one year all the way from England as a motivator to get me to New York to pursue my career in the music industry (&amp; it worked, sort of), but I am having difficu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2142412">more...</a>]]></body>
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