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  <title><![CDATA[Turtle Diary (Bloomsbury Paperbacks)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Russell Hoban]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[By the author of my favorite children's book--A Mole Family Christmas. Didn't ruin my childhood memories, and that's saying something for a book that has both sex and phrases and themes you recognize from the life of Delver Mole and his family . ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Aw. Just... aw.<br/><br/>As I mentioned in the comments to this review, I picked this up as an antidote to the bleak and violent stuff I'd been reading of late. I think it's important to have a certain amount of happy-ending stories in your reading pile, and this was one of them.<br/><br/>Not th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17130398">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A bookstore employee and a writer of children's books conceive a parallel obsession with kidnapping and releasing giant turtles at the London zoo. Their paths intersect for a while and they carry out what seems a madcap plan with remarkable ease. Told in the form of alternating diary entries by the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49006674">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another strange little book that was big for my formative years. Strange relationship between two people who both love a turtle. I think. ]]></body>
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    <review id="39099830">
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as Riddley Walker but an enjoyable and gentle tale of two people who free turtles from a zoo. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I must have missed something here.]]></body>
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    <review id="52645292">
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    <body><![CDATA[one of my favourites! hilarious. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book it was cute.]]></body>
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    <review id="36091770">
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    <body><![CDATA[Surprisingly simple yet philosophical, this story traces the first person narratives of two lonely people living in 1975 London (the year the book was written), how they are drawn to a quest to free the turtles from the Zoo, and how their decision shapes the course of their lives.  A lovely read.]]></body>
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    <review id="21920761">
    <user id="614156">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is *nothing* like Riddley Walker!  It's a sweet story, though.  I guess they made a movie out of it w/ Ben Kingsley. Haven't seen that.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for a class, but at a time when I was so busy that I won't really count it as read until I give it another go.]]></body>
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    <review id="21861308">
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    <body><![CDATA[Very strange book.  2 lonely people join to free sea turtles.  Linear, poetic<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="31335231">
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    <name><![CDATA[Doug]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of my ten favorite books. ]]></body>
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    <review id="16810090">
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    <body><![CDATA[Hoban's such an original prose stylist.]]></body>
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