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  <title><![CDATA[Almanac of the Dead]]></title>
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  <default_description>In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. Author readings.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1991</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Almanac of the Dead</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Leslie Marmon Silko]]></name>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jan 07 15:15:02 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wrote my master's thesis on this book, thus I've lost track of how many times I've read it.  This is not for the faint-of-heart.  Silko is putting Western, Euro-centric culture on trial and the evidence she cites is pretty damning.  She has said in interviews that the anger that seethes on every p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11645573">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1869311">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Everyone who wants to have a life-changing experience.  But maybe not children.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 11 20:39:11 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 11 20:48:29 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book that helped me realize that time doesn't have to be the way we think.  Both the past and the future are our partners.  We need them both, and we have them both with us all the time.  This is the book that made me realize that although Bush totally rots, his time and his influence ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1869311">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29013726">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 01 16:48:40 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 01 17:30:36 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I've re-read this book twice, and regularly go back and read some of my favorite parts, I'm having trouble remembering what it was like reading it the first time around. It is a devastating portrait of the violence, greed, and moral corruption of colonization, making it often extremely difficult ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29013726">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6905401">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 27 13:45:01 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 22 10:22:20 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a tough book.  It's been ages since it took so much time and effort for me to finish a book.  Silko creates dozens of characters in several locales and their stories are told only a little bit at a time, with little sense of how they relate to one another until the final section of the book....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6905401">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69125632">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 27 13:54:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 27 14:27:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alright.  First of all, I want to admit that I see flaws in this novel.  There were times when I was bored to tears.  But, it is so damn dense, and if I were to count the number of times it just completely blew my mind, I'd have to give it five stars' worth of goodness and maybe some external negati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69125632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59482784">
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 12 22:28:25 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 12 22:28:42 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead for my &quot;Big Books&quot; class, and quickly realized that Silko's work definitely fit the description of a big book: it's a sprawling, expansive epic that spans various continents and chronologies.  Beyond big, however, any label you try to apply ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59482784">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73339196">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 03 15:41:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 12 07:42:36 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was determined to finish this and I did. I was so hungry for the narrative: drug dealing and real estate development in Tucson, an army of the homeless, military fortifications on the border, a tv psychic, persistent rumors of an indigenous uprising coming from the south. Some of these themes over...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73339196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44487916">
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    <location><![CDATA[Oakland, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[history buffs and those who enjoy seeing things fall apart.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 27 00:04:14 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 12 00:10:44 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[    This is an extremely long, but not dense, set of intertwining stories involving a very large number of characters who live mostly in Mexico or in the US state of Arizona, near Tucson.  A work of contemporary historical fiction encompassing over 300 years of time between the Apache excursions aga...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44487916">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30665534">
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    <location><![CDATA[Reno, NV]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 20 09:37:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 20 09:40:44 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book through to the end requires some fortitude and determination. Kind of like Moby Dick. But this novel is, well, prophetic. Occasionally, when I come across some item in the news (like the buying and selling of human organs), I say to myself, Oh, that was predicted in Almanac.]]></body>
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    <review id="54759885">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mary]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat May 02 23:29:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 16 20:29:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Someone said a good book tells about a good character, and a bad book tells more about the character of its author.  I believe this book is the latter, and I don't believe I would care to cross paths with Leslie Marmon Silko.  Among the many fold things I disliked about this book (homophobia, long a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54759885">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48381023">
    <user id="600126">
    <name><![CDATA[Katherine]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 05 19:57:19 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 05 20:37:05 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not my favorite book, but it's stayed with me all these years and I'm reminded of it often. I've finally accepted that the parts that piss me off (the pedantic academic sections, the enormous homophobic streak) are inseparable from the fullness of Silko's apocalyptic vision. What begins as a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48381023">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48381023]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="3360916">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jessica]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 21 17:42:17 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 21 17:43:42 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[BUT, don't read this if you are tender-hearted or images of violence are likely to seep beneath your skin. i couldn't put this down. then it stayed with me in a haunting and awful way for years. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3360916]]></url>
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    <review id="2713414">
    <user id="66602">
    <name><![CDATA[Melody]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Denver, CO]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[radicals and feminists]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 04 12:21:05 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 04 12:24:20 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fierce and disturbing look at the global crisis, those destroying the world and those being destroyed. Well written and provokitive, this dark look at the future of our planet will haunt you.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2713414]]></url>
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    <review id="34098670">
    <user id="762664">
    <name><![CDATA[Mary]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Iowa City, IA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 28 23:09:00 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 31 18:05:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[When this book came out, I had many friends who recoiled reading it.  It should have been the book chosen for the celebration of Columbus in 1992.  Instead <u>Crown of Columbus&lt;u/&gt; by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich was chosen--a soap opera of a novel that was dismal.  If you can't handle bruta...</u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34098670">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34098670]]></url>
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    <review id="20346793">
    <user id="612660">
    <name><![CDATA[Marissa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Missoula, MT]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue May 06 20:24:07 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 16 20:26:27 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 06 20:24:07 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is as dazzling as it is dense.It's ripe with history, mythology, interesting characters and steamy sex. <br/><br/>Readers who enjoy action movies will like this.  Curiously, so will those interested in the &quot;alternate history&quot; literature that's so popular now.  Also, it's very r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20346793">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20346793]]></url>
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    <review id="39816139">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ben]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 10 16:04:30 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 10 16:10:49 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one is hard to recommend as it's overly long and literally all over the place, but some of it was awesome.  If you want to read something with a hundred really screwed up characters and vaguely Grant Morrisonion layering of outlaw/revolutionary activities and Native American prophecies playing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39816139">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39816139]]></url>
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    <review id="67907028">
    <user id="928243">
    <name><![CDATA[Terrikempton]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 18 11:34:43 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 18 11:37:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating and hurtful, this book has been memorable over the years.  Amongst the violence, perversion and drug-induced lunacy are truly interesting nuggets of thought about race, culture, gender, and identity.  Too bad they were smothered by such distasteful circumstances and behavior that I can't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67907028">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67907028]]></url>
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    <review id="51776321">
    <user id="2152662">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book took me two months to read.  It was not fun, not fun at all.  I remember feeling tortured but determined, masochistic, self flagelating ... does goodreads have spellcheck?  Leslie Marmon Silko explored every perversion and weakness of white America, including a rich old bastard who had sex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51776321">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I suspect many people shy away from this novel because of its length.  In any case, it hasn't achieved the canonical status of Ceremony, but Almanac of the Dead is Silko's best novel.  It is epic in scope and delivered in poetic but unsparing language.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wrote a paper about this book after reading it for my Native American Lit Seminar, which was all about how bleak the book was with hardly any actual love of humanity in most of the characters. Silko's take on the current political situation is pretty severe, much more dire than it appears in some ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/650611">more...</a>]]></body>
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