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    <body><![CDATA[Have you ever attended a long cocktail party at an elegant hotel with crowds of well dressed people chattering while a piano player provides background music and after the ball is over find yourself at home with the vague impression that you have not actually been anywhere? If so, you have a good id...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11628370">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Possibly my favorite book from the entire literary brat pack canon, this book goes beyond New England undergrads in orgies of blow and manages to fully explore the relationship of a Manhattan power couple.  The novel opens on a storybook marriage between Corrine and Russell with Russell on the cusp ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18447437">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this reminded me of how &quot;the beautiful and damned&quot; is technically better than &quot;the great gatsby&quot; but not as well-known. this is better than &quot;bright lights, big city.&quot; ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My feelings about this book see-sawed from annoyance to affection. It is set in 1987, which at first annoyed the heck out of me with the Wall Street/Bright Lights, Bic City/St. Elmo's Fire-ishness of it all...Gradually, the story drew me in and the characters really won me over. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For my full review see my blog post &quot;BARF BAG INCLUDED&quot;.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this one.  My second favorite Jay McInerney novel.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant and memorable.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a cross between Edith Wharton and Page Six--fine writing wrapped up into a juicy, enjoyable, voyeuristic story chronically the happy-on-the-surface-but-not-so-much-underneath lives of a bunch of thirty-somethings in go-go 1980's New York. I found it richer and more satisfying a read tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12952963">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[so, i read the Good Life before i read this and while reading it i really was wishing i had done it the other way around (um, the way that they were meant to be read, i assume). anyways, it was good, but not as good or as relevant as the Good Life. and yes, i suppose the 15 year gap in publication p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20470658">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 17 10:28:48 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is nicely written, but I think it will be pretty forgettable for me. It is in many ways Great Gatsby-like, but realize that I didn't like that great American novel either. I thought I knew where the book was headed, and many ways I was right. The ending was better than I expected though, which bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24433276">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tragic. Beautiful.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book  is TOTALLY underrated. It has its flaws but I think the elegiac tone is just right. I also think it would make a great movie in the right hands, and I mean that as a huge compliment.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book - trashy and much easier to read at 3 in the morning. And have read so many times that I pick it up and read in the middle. Would be interested in reading the sequel...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yet another find from my brother-in-law's bathroom reading.  Fine for just that - bathroom, beach, anywhere you're not wearing pants &amp; need some 80's NYC yuppie escapism.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very good novel about what happens when youth is lost and responsiblity rears its ugly head.  At sometime the party has to stop.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A+ Fantastic story of two couples and their love, affairs, and complications in NYC--the kind of book that takes you over<br/>]]></body>
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