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    <body><![CDATA[Brown's stories, all save for one written in the first-person, feature wonderfully authentic narrative voices. As a transplanted Southern male, the rhythms and dictions of Brown's narrators were nearly enough to give me flashbacks. However, the narrators were largely undifferentiated; they bled into...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1119190">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Damn, I love Larry Brown.  I just can't get over him, and everytime I remember that he's died, I mourn that I'll soon run out of things of his to read.  He somehow writes stories that are at once familiar and foreign.  To be honest, the people he writes about are people I would have avoided in Missi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20518196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I won this book in a breakup-letter-writing contest.  It's signed, in pencil.  Who signs in pencil?  Amateur!  But ok, it might be good, and I have a nagging goal of reading the books I own. This one is at my parents' house... one of these days, I guess.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of the better short stories collections I ever read. All of the stories are linked together with similar themes. For the most part the collection reads as a loose narrative telling the tales of some very amusing and complex characters set in rural Mississippi (director Arliss Howard inc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10108244">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Big Bad Love</em> is a collection of short stories written by the late Larry Brown. As the title suggests, every story in this collection deals with love. However; the love Larry Brown delivers is not your typical Hallmark-card-greeting, love-at-first-sight romance, instead he dished out gritty, dirt roa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9958427">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Southern writer with a broken heart.  And by southern, I mean trailer worthy.  But WOW, Larry brings the heat.  This collection of short stories will break your heart.<br/><br/>One of my favorite review of Larry Brown went a little something like, &quot;Larry Brown writes like a force of nature.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36605990">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You know, this book is terrific. Larry Brown was better at making you love a lowlife than anyone. I mean, right down in the dirt, and full of love.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this to know what the love of words can do to you.  <br/><br/>The movie is sublime: beautiful and complex, and confusing.  Watch that too.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant short stories from America's heartland. Thanks to Mike Manson at Vesuvio for turning me on to it. Just bloody marvelous writing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Larry Brown is my favorite author right now. This is one of my favorite collections of short stories.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw the movie first, which is a compilation of the main story &quot;Big Bad Love&quot; and the other short stories.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I had read Larry Brown about 7 years ago when I lived in Oxford, MS. Maybe I could have come to some of his readings.<br/><br/>This collection of short stories is really good. The characters are a bunch of down and out losers but whose observations of the world around them are detailed, fas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35148199">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alan recommendation]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 10 19:00:11 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Watch for headlights. They are coming, sooner or later.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[(written 5-03)<br/><br/>A collection of short stories.  The male character in each (written in first person) seems the same - a beer-drinkin' pickup-drivin' Southern sorta dude with woman problems.  Each story has its own charm though.  Well, maybe not charm, but character.  Most of them are rather ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13130166">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it's been a long time since i read this book. what i remember is that it summoned up very viscerally a lot about the physical atmosphere of Mississippi that i know and love. also-- deep, flawed, heartbreaking &amp; real characters. however i remember at the end getting really turned off &amp; disgusted by t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12264342">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[These stories are raw, symbolic and poignant. He makes you feel sympathy and compassion for the flawed people in them, and you find yourself realizing that you're not all that different. Old Soldiers is the one that's going to stick with me from this collection, but it's nice that all the stories sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57105722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The late and great, Larry Brown. You cannot understand southern culture without this book on your shelf. He wrote like Howlin' Wolf sang the blues. You can taste it and feel it.He could do more in a few sentences than most writers could do with a thousand pages. If you are discovering him, you are i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18562582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A somewhat stereotypical view of Southern life.  I mean, the guy is a southerner, and I guess he knows of which he speaks, but....<br/>These stories are all told from the male point of view and include a lot of drinking, womanizing, and just down right ornery behavior.  It's alright.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[although the overlap in plot lines and themes is too heavy overall, the prose and mood in many of the stories is perfect.  read them individually and space over time and i bet it is a better experience (i pounded down in 24 hours, probably not the best approach to this one).  ]]></body>
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