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  <title><![CDATA[Ninety-two in the Shade]]></title>
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  <default_description>Set in Key West--the nation's extreme limit--this is the story of a man seeking refuge from a world of drug addiction by becoming a skiff guide for tourists--even though a tough competitor threatens to kill him.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1973</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thomas McGuane]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[A.J.]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 26 07:14:44 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 29 11:23:58 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thomas Skelton leaves behind a life of drugs and debauchery, not to mention his studies, and returns home to Key West. He decides to become a flats guide, because it's only while out on the flats that he feels whole. But guiding is a competitive business. And Nichol Dance, an established guide, make...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31220430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40661691">
    <user id="1586026">
    <name><![CDATA[Troy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Orient, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 22 05:58:01 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 22 06:02:40 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Entry-level McGuane, one of my favorite authors of all time, and I'm not just saying that because he once answered a fan letter. Other favs: &quot;The Sporting Club&quot; and &quot;Gallatin Canyon,&quot; a recent collection of short stories. His writing often is challenging because he uses language ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40661691">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40661691]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="14251194">
    <user id="862037">
    <name><![CDATA[James]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Bradenton, FL]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Florida fiction readers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Feb 01 05:11:16 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Feb 05 06:58:25 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was intrigued by this novel because some of my counter parts in the fishing world love it. Being born and raised in Florida, having spent a great deal of my childhood down in the Keys, and being an avid fisherman (almost charter captain); I thought for sure I would love this story. But I didn't. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14251194">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14251194]]></url>
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    <review id="7771074">
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    <name><![CDATA[Luxagraf]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Athens, GA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 15 18:30:17 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 15 18:31:04 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[McGuane gets compared to Pynchon quite a bit, which I&#8217;ve never understood save perhaps the sheer madcap pace of language and witticisms, but whereas with Pynchon these come in bursts, with McGuane they&#8217;re pretty much sustained. Perhaps that&#8217;s why McGuane writes shorter books &mdash; you can only keep up t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7771074">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7771074]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="54110377">
    <user id="2225211">
    <name><![CDATA[Sandra]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Sarasota, FL]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 27 06:39:19 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 27 06:53:04 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Vivid, complex characters in  Key West Setting make a good read.  Depicts the drug hazed culture of that author's youth, fleshed out in depraved personal relationships.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54110377]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="68864146">
    <user id="2651400">
    <name><![CDATA[Tom]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Rhinelander, WI]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 25 14:26:09 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 25 14:27:04 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't finish it.  It seemed to me that this book conveyed a sense of the 60's/70/s that didn't stand the test of time, but I'm not a die hard McGuane fan.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68864146]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="41840930">
    <user id="1324900">
    <name><![CDATA[Janet]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Providence, RI]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Jan 04 10:20:28 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 04 10:20:28 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[read this and others by McGuane in the late 80s, early 90s.  trying to remember them.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41840930]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="40216373">
    <user id="998697">
    <name><![CDATA[Jim]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Columbus, OH]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Tue Dec 16 08:00:27 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 16 08:00:56 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just found this used. I like the Bushwacked Piano a lot, and this sounds very nice.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40216373]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="3583767">
    <user id="47890">
    <name><![CDATA[Andy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 26 11:47:20 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 26 11:47:20 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't get through this one. In fact, I made it through 30 pages and put the book down. Not a real honest effort, but the language was a real barrier for me. I notice another reviewer said it's a 200 page book that reads like a 600 page book and that sounds about right to me. I don't think an auth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3583767">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3583767]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="49211584">
    <user id="1177500">
    <name><![CDATA[Scott]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lewisville, TX]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 13 20:34:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 08 14:22:04 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not an easy read by any means, but interesting and enjoyable. The language takes a bit to get used to, but it was so good that after the first 30 pages (which is about when I really got into the flow of things) I went back and started over. <br/><br/>I've started The Cadence of Grass before (didn'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49211584">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25468926">
    <user id="1265012">
    <name><![CDATA[Jesse]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jun 25 15:59:41 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 29 19:25:34 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i don't know how i was even remotely interested in this book, a plot that went from nonexistent to obvious, pointless sexual fantasy, cheap cliche humor, detached run-on piss stream of thought, and so on.  But there were these times of backwards eloquence that kind of absorbed you in color from all ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25468926">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25468926]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="5071721">
    <user id="3877">
    <name><![CDATA[Gavin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[East Lansing, MI]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 24 18:41:36 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 24 18:42:44 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Frantic, manic, but with a soul. &quot;The Old Man and the Sea&quot; meets &quot;<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7745.Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas_A_Savage_Journey_to_the_Heart_of_the_American_Dream" title="Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas  A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson">Fear and Loathing</a> in Las Vegas.&quot;]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5071721]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="26972466">
    <user id="1292780">
    <name><![CDATA[Seth]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 11 12:12:39 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 11 12:14:09 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[McGuane's overwrought prose does much damage to an otherwise interesting group of lowlife characters.  The film adaptation of this work, directed by McGuane, is far better and features one of the best Warren Oates performances of all time.   ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26972466]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="19631391">
    <user id="1042231">
    <name><![CDATA[Jpaflas]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Apr 07 06:33:04 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 07 06:36:53 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[McGuane really is a good writer.. and this Key West type madness tale is a very entertaining quick read.  And to either turn you on or turn you off, he was married to Jimmy Buffett's sister Laurie.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19631391]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="15379474">
    <user id="809087">
    <name><![CDATA[Stephen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 13 20:14:37 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 13 20:15:38 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Set in Key West, and a bit crazy relative to the characters and their perspective.  All a bit perverse, but a pretty funny read. McGuane is a realist if nothing else. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15379474]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="72662255">
    <user id="1017739">
    <name><![CDATA[Leslie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 27 10:54:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Nov 21 11:31:31 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I kind of hate to give this a low rating because I did enjoy the story but it was such a struggle to read that I just wanted it to be over with.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72662255]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="450357">
    <user id="39076">
    <name><![CDATA[Barrett]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Duluth, MN]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 27 11:13:13 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 05 21:24:12 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A 200-page book that reads like 600. Incredibly dense language, a difficult vocabulary, but a good, simple story with bizarre characters. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/450357]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="31346145">
    <user id="1358068">
    <name><![CDATA[Derek]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Oakland, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 27 11:57:37 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 27 11:58:17 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic bk, and also a rare instance (see also &quot;Fat City&quot; and &quot;Wise Blood&quot;) where the movie version does the bk justice.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31346145]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="30682570">
    <user id="456108">
    <name><![CDATA[Jimmy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Okolona, MS]]></location>        
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