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  <title><![CDATA[The Men's Club]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1983</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Leonard Michaels]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Farzaneh]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[داستان نويس‌ها بخوانند]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 26 07:41:33 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 27 21:46:16 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 26 07:40:11 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[بعضي قسمتهاش خيلي تاثيرگذاره و شكفت مي‌ماني از ذكاوت نويسنده در برقراري چنين ارتباط‌هايي حسي. نمي‌شود گفت عالي نيست. اما بنظرم چيزي كه سلينجر را ميان خواننده‌ي اي...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6926887">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[They made a movie of this in 1986 that is generally agreed to be very mediocre, with Leonard Michaels writing his own screenplay adaptation. I went to see it as a teenager because Jennifer Jason Leigh was in it, and I had a crush on her from 'Fast Times...' She was on the movie poster, the only acto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32664112">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 24 04:54:27 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 30 19:22:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was funny and compelling-ish but, you know, empty. Maybe I'd feel differently if I became a man. I only say 'became' because I can't figure out whether 'was' or 'were' is grammatically correct in its place--<em>The Men's Club</em> did not inspire me to change my gender.]]></body>
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    <review id="9536597">
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 25 19:13:33 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 25 22:56:45 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this during two soaks in the bathtub at my parent's house upstate.  Some interesting stuff but it feels like a short story with too much extra material tacked on.  The book is comprised of a series of anecdotes from a group of men and the majority of these rambling sections are over-written a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9536597">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6540206">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 21 07:07:28 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 21 07:08:32 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[شاهکاره. مخصوصن اون داستان شاهزاده ی ایرانی  دیوانه کننده است. این مایکلز آدم خیلی مهمیه. حیف که ازش چیز زیادی ترجمه نشده.]]></body>
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    <review id="36689888">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dated, but alive.]]></body>
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    <review id="26134">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mauricio]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, Hardcover, First Edition<br/>Una buena historia, bien escrita y sin grandes pretensiones. ]]></body>
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    <review id="60013209">
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Jack London of 1960s California. Men are brutes.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dialogue and story-telling]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[kheili khoob bood]]></body>
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