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    <body><![CDATA[I came across Jonathan Carroll a few years back and after the first book I read (can't remember which one it was now), I couldn't believe that I hadn't read him before. I had found another new favourite author, who I would put up there with Tom Robbins and Nabokov in terms of playful yet life-queryi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80833593">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Years ago, if anyone would have asked me who my favorite author was, my reaction would have been immediate and enthusiastic...  Jonathan Carroll, of course.  Then he left his Vienna characters behind and branched out into new worlds.  <br/><br/>I found myself reading Kissing the Beehive, The Marri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18594028">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can’t really decide how I feel about this book as a whole.  I found it very, very tender and beautiful in a lot of ways.  But it was surprisingly similar to The Ghost in Love, and the oddness can get somewhat wearing and cute.  I think I really love Jonathan Carroll but I just can’t decide how...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58484515">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVE Carroll's novels - for me, they are some of the most enjoyable reads I have done. Yet this one, which picks up from the better 'White Apples,' seems to &quot;run out of steam.&quot;<br/><br/>Still, it is full of everything I love about a Johnathan Carroll novel: fantastic settings/concepts gr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19505483">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book because it was highly recommended at Powell's in Portland and I am always on the lookout for another great sci-fi author. The book was interesting and weird, but kind of just for the sake of being so. I learned nothing about life from the story, which is (perhaps unfairly) what I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31275140">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book, found myself ah-hahing a lot, or thinking, right on, or laughing out loud at the imagination of this author.  It is a book that makes you think about your dreams, god, and reality all at the same time.  God is a mosaic, that is constantly changing and reforming and evolvi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27379919">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really thought I would like it more than I did. I just didn't really get into it, but I can't put my finger on why. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Carroll writes beautiful prose. Reading this book, I was actually compelled to stop, call my friends one by one, and read to them from the book; it was that splendid. I've never done that before.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was so excited to read this book when it was first published, especially as an avid reader of the author's blog, but it just hasn't held my interest in the way that I expected it would.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Something about an octopus as a bus driver dragged me into it.  Hehe.  I just started it though... Only on page 20. Not much to report back yet....]]></body>
    
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