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  <title><![CDATA[Brida]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Paulo Coelho]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed May 28 04:51:45 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Coelho's <em>Alchemist</em> is one of my favorite books. I've read it twice, and both times its simple story and straightforward Universal Truths have stirred me. <em>Brida</em> tells a similar story about a youth who feels herself tugged onto a unique path toward greatness. But lightning has not struck twice. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20908213">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 04 13:23:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 05 09:05:42 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, so this book came recommended to me by a freind, so I was pretty excited to read it. Once I got started, however, I was a bit disappointed (soory M.C.) <br/><br/>First off, the main charachter was niave and a bit juvenille. Everything that she thought of and said was almost infintile. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29235690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28251348">
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 25 07:20:22 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 28 01:22:49 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only quotes that I liked and made sense in an otherwise rambling narrative:<br/><br/>&quot;Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day&quot;<br/>                                  ~ Brida's father (Pg.99)<br/><br/>&quot;What is now proved was once...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28251348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48143699">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Mar 23 11:19:04 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this little story, but I enjoyed &quot;The Witch of Portobello&quot; (my first Coelho read) more. However, I think people are looking for a bit too much out of this book. It's a good little tale, and I enjoyed a few of the lines from it/quotes. I think Señor Coelho is simply asking us to re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48143699">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27186791">
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 14 04:12:48 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 14 04:37:18 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;How will I know who my Soulmate is?&quot; Indeed, we are all looking for something. Someone to love, someone who loves us, something that adds meaning to our life, our existence. Some sign, to know we are not alone. Some indication to know that our thoughts, feelings, memories, will not die wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27186791">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57999017">
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 31 18:21:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 07 08:22:13 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a sweet little story. In some ways, it reminds me of the kinds of stories one finds in the Bible and the Zohar. Such stories aren't stories in terms of the classic ideas of plots, but serve to illustrate spiritual points. I see Brida in that way. The plot is a very thin scaffold on which to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57999017">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23795525">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 05 13:45:04 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 20 05:17:45 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never read anything by Paulo Coelho before, so I was rather surprised by the pagan spirituality of this little novel.  It's the story of Brida, an Irish girl in training to become a witch.  It is full of beautifully worded prose--I found myself making little tics and stars beside many paragraph...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23795525">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8100544">
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    <location><![CDATA[Vladivostok, Russian Federation]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 22 18:50:00 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 03 17:31:32 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brida is a tale of love, passion, mystery, and spirituality from a master storyteller. Coelho wrote Brida right after The Alchemist, and it launched his career as an international novelist. It has never been published in English—until now. Brida will be in stores June 24th, but you can read a Snea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8100544">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50195522">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 23 12:41:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 09 11:29:06 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished reading Brida yesterday. I love Paulo Coelho, but was profoundly disappointed by this book. My personal pet peeve is that, in it, he basically states that all witches pray to the Christian god, Christ and the virgin Mary, and that all witchcraft comes from Christianity. He stated in the b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50195522">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43217543">
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    <name><![CDATA[Will]]></name>
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 16 01:58:27 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 15 20:47:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first exposure to Coelho was many years ago. I read The Alchemist at a time in my life when I was experiencing some major changes and I found very real comfort and guidance there. I enjoyed several more of his novels but after a time there seemed to be a repetitiveness to them that left me unsati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43217543">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31265649">
    <user id="219514">
    <name><![CDATA[Jamie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 26 16:24:06 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 26 16:47:15 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Apparently there are lots of other covers for this book, all of them more fun than the hard cover I purchased.  This, despite being in another language, is the cover I have.  I like the other two English versions I see better.  Oh well.<br/><br/>I love how simplistic and concise Coehlo's books are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31265649">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="32522648">
    <user id="779321">
    <name><![CDATA[Chanelle]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Smithfield, UT]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Sarah, so you can explain it to me]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 10 08:45:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 10 09:17:10 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Can somebody please tell me what this book was about?!  I consider myself a pretty savvy reader, but I didn't get this at all.  I loved the Alchemist and this has much of the same philosophical insights and phrases you want to savor . . . (&quot;Nothing is wrong all the time, even a stopped clock is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32522648">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31876763">
    <user id="635025">
    <name><![CDATA[Yaya]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Jakarta, Tangerang, Indonesia]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 02 20:42:51 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 20 18:18:32 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[You just know that you've found your soulmate when you look into their eyes..you just know.<br/><br/>Brida actually is a typical girl who wanted to find her true love..<br/><br/>Brida is just like the rest of us who thought that the person claims to love us isn't the one meant for us...<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31876763">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51355798">
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  <date_added>Fri Apr 03 03:04:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 03 03:12:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Paulo Coelho came highly recommended, so I'm going to give him another chance, but this book really didn't live up to my expectations. It's supposed to be spiritually enlightening, but I just found it annoying. For starters, the main character is too much of a Mary-Sue. She's beautiful, we're she's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51355798">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35021633">
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 10 19:27:44 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 17 03:24:59 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kok aku susah banget ya bikin review untuk buku ini?<br/><br/>Mungkin karena temanya tentang soulmate.<br/>Aku masih kurang sreg &amp; paham tentang soulmate ini.<br/>Menurutku, soulmate ga bisa ditemukan dalam pandangan pertama.<br/>Menurutku itu adalah first love.<br/>Soulmate itu bisa kita kata...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35021633">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59758204">
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 15 11:39:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 16 07:38:52 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another Coelho book I picked up at the Library. Her name is so similar to mine I had to give it a go. Started reading yesterday and I'm already half way through the book. Coelho is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. <br/><br/><em>Following Day</em><br/><br/>Okay, so I finished this book up last...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59758204">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Paulo Coelho is clearly a genius--and not a literary one.  The fact that he can write something this unfathomably dull and make millions of people buy it is a feat of marketing brilliance.<br/><br/>This book relies on a series of vagueries that one would imagine the author might at some point expl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52954587">more...</a>]]></body>
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