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  <title><![CDATA[Lost in Rooville: A Novel]]></title>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up Ray Blackston’s first novel a few years ago just because the title was so great. I mean, titling your first novel Flabbergasted is a great selling point and I will admit that I came away from the first book feeling just that. Blackston’s story of Jay Jarvis, a single guy who visited ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23766292">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was not my favorite of Blackston's.  Too much clueless, lovestruck dopieness for me.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not know that this was part of a trilogy, but I thought the book stood well on its own. It's a nice little memoir of a man who takes his girlfriend (and fellow missionary - there are some sad/sweet tales of their village in South America they teach at and the appalling conditions there) to Aus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28914944">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jay's brain is full of math. It is also full of the thrill of seeking the perfect place to propose. While Jay's hope that Australia + Woman + Ring = Engagement, he soon has to face a scary reality: when lost in the Outback, four of five who stay with the vehicle live. A story of God's grace amid our...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29641573">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The last book in the Flabbergasted trilogy.  It was sorely not as good as the first two.  It included several cliches that the author obviously avoided in the first book.  I was disappointed, but it did resolve a few cliffhangers cutely.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fun airplane read.  However, the ending was disappointingly predictable, especially after reading the two books that preceed this one. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to say this was the best one of the series.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Flabbergasted series / book three]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just a fun book to read]]></body>
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