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  <title><![CDATA[Other People]]></title>
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  <default_description>She wakes in an emergency room in a London hospital, to a voice that tells her: &quot;You're on your own now. Take care. Be good.&quot; She has no knowledge of her name, her past, or even her species. It takes her a while to realize that she is human -- and that the beings who threaten, befriend, and violate her are other people. Some of whom seem to know all about her.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In this eerie, blackly funny, and sometimes disorienting novel, Martin Amis gives us a mystery that is as ambitious as it is intriguing, an investigation of a young woman's violent extinction that also traces her construction of a new and oddly innocent self.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1981</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Martin Amis]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Oct 06 23:02:14 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 01 22:42:45 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, Martin.  Really.  This...this is <em>murder</em>.  You're killing me, Marty.  You're simply <em>killing</em> me.  <br/>*<br/>How can Martin Amis do this to me? To <em>me</em>? How can he write such beautiful prose that keeps me home on New Years Eve? You know, this book is really the most honest book I've ever read abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7369912">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 09 06:10:48 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 28 06:26:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Other People by Martin Amis is an unsolvable mystery. To fully understand everything that occurs in this novel, and the meaning implied by such events, warrants several readings. Yet, once finished with it there is a strong voice screaming in the reader's mind, &quot;I don't ever want to go back to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42443553">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="63128811">
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    <name><![CDATA[James]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United Arab Emirates]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 12 03:50:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 12 05:19:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[My rating for the book goes down the longer I think about it. I picked this one up at the same time as Daphne Du Maurier's &quot;The Scapegoat&quot; and was really surprised to find the two books, so very different in many ways, extraordinarily similiar in structure and what they offer the reader. B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63128811">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63128811]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="48893163">
    <user id="698826">
    <name><![CDATA[Alan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1983</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 11 02:09:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 11 02:13:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favourite and first Martin Amis, it's been downhill ever since, even though he is a great writer he's too full of himself. This dates from when he was truly interested in 'other people'. It's mysterious and engaging, from the time he was part of the 'martianism' group (yes also an anagram).For ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48893163">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48893163]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="45665012">
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    <name><![CDATA[Odeiliablack]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Calgary, AB, Canada]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Feb 07 13:06:29 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 07 13:07:06 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I was very confused for most of this book, but in a way that felt like I was discovering something. I still don't know what it was. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45665012]]></url>
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    <review id="50807580">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Madison, WI]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 29 09:53:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 29 09:54:04 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't care what Greg says ; ), I'm intrigued by this book. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50807580]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="50905203">
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    <location><![CDATA[Madison, WI]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Mar 30 07:24:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 30 07:24:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Other People by Martin Amis (1994)]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50905203]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="55379990">
    <user id="850181">
    <name><![CDATA[Lianna]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Phoenix, AZ]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <date_added>Fri May 08 10:24:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 08 10:27:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Can anyone explain to me what happened?]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55379990]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="42877495">
    <user id="1901987">
    <name><![CDATA[Aimee]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Soddy Daisy, TN]]></location>        
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[lee county jail]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 13 01:01:15 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 13 01:01:49 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>1</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[complicated]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42877495]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="50732238">
    <user id="1278791">
    <name><![CDATA[Greg]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 19 19:52:51 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 28 13:25:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 19 19:52:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quite an accomplishment in terms of metafictional narratives, but I can't shake the feeling that Beckett did phenomenological filters better, and thirty years before this.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50732238]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="5547196">
    <user id="308935">
    <name><![CDATA[Beth]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 02 16:36:45 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 02 16:37:49 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Was recommended to me by someone whose taste I trust. Supposed to salvage my opinion of the author after slogging my way through The Information (which was recommended on its subject matter: publishing but which was borish and encumbered). ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5547196]]></url>
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    <review id="232351">
    <user id="21651">
    <name><![CDATA[Nigel]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 11 14:04:29 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 12 13:25:46 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bleak, disorientating, and a bit of an anticlimax. But well written and worth reading nevertheless.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/232351]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="25274063">
    <user id="1258497">
    <name><![CDATA[Dassi]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Denver, CO]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 23 20:41:26 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 23 20:42:16 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Martin Amis is brash and blunt yet has the most amazing and raw characters!]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25274063]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="4922156">
    <user id="138926">
    <name><![CDATA[Clint]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Thailand]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 22 00:29:52 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 22 01:49:29 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[A really weird book, I think I like it more than other people generally seem to.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4922156]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="2973230">
    <user id="138947">
    <name><![CDATA[Magid]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Everyone]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 12 06:00:59 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 12 06:01:43 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[What a gripping, funny, mysterious, well-written novel. I thoroughly enjoyed it.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2973230]]></url>
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    <review id="16614661">
    <user id="949262">
    <name><![CDATA[Heidi]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Asheville, NC]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 28 10:41:26 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 28 10:43:15 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Can't remember much of this one; I think that I was left confused...]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16614661]]></url>
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    <review id="5848414">
    <user id="43921">
    <name><![CDATA[Teddi Lee]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Fri Sep 07 11:40:41 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 07 11:40:41 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This book made me feel slightly dirty.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5848414]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="3415630">
    <user id="214169">
    <name><![CDATA[T]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 23 12:05:16 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 25 20:11:40 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hell. But the good kind.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3415630]]></url>
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    <review id="79161559">
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    <name><![CDATA[Laura]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[La Fayette, NY]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 27 19:12:17 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 27 19:12:17 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Dan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Canada]]></location>        
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