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  <title><![CDATA[Less Than Angels]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Barbara Pym]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 08 07:33:44 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 08 07:34:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the first chapter a menagerie of characters is quickly sketched, each being individual and rendered unique and cleverly interesting with a minimum of strokes.  Already potential tensions and acrimonies are being suggested, all with wry wit and a bit of condescension.  Most of Pym’s characters i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73847865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38620335">
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    <name><![CDATA[Rissa]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 25 09:27:48 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 30 10:55:09 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved, loved, loved it! I was a bit afraid when I read Jane and Prudence and found myself disliking the characters so much, but the characters in this one were once again written with the compassionate detachment that I'd appreciated in Pym's first two. I think this is my favorite so far. Catherine ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38620335">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68045557">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 19 10:32:30 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 19 10:43:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm on page 206.  Here's a quote I really like:  Catherine is thinking this after Tom's aunt has come to visit her:  The day was coming to its end, and although it had been tiring and upsetting it had at least been full and that, she supposed, was all to the good.  Pain, amusement, surprise, resigna...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68045557">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32711480">
    <user id="108416">
    <name><![CDATA[Nancy]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 12 12:48:08 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 12 13:06:01 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm currently re-reading much of Barbara Pym and really feel that the impact of her writing is best experienced by reading a group of her novels, rather than just one.<br/><br/>I perused some other reviewers comments on her books and gulped as one reader called her (essentially) an early Chick Lit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32711480">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="44292162">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Jan 25 10:57:19 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 25 10:58:25 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In typical Barbara Pym style, we are taken back to a different, gentler time in this novel. To a world of a group of young anthropologists, their hopes for their futures and the copious notes that must be written up. To the small surburban domestic rituals of a group of people who live small lives, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44292162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65806710">
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    <name><![CDATA[Cassandra]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Aug 01 17:06:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 01 17:07:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[More from my lovey-love. This one deals with twee anthropologists and makes me giggle.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65806710]]></url>
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    <review id="58746616">
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 07 09:26:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 08 16:11:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-562-Book-Examiner~y2009m5d27-10-authors-Jane-Austen-fans-should-read" title="http://www.examiner.com/x-562-Book-Examiner~y2009m5d27-10-authors-Jane-Austen-fans-should-read">http://www.examiner.com/x-562-Book-Exami...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39722594">
    <user id="629625">
    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Dec 09 15:40:18 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 09 15:40:52 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Um, can you tell I'm trying to read everything by Pym? ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39722594]]></url>
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    <review id="52205602">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lanora]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Apr 10 11:17:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym (1980)]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52205602]]></url>
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    <review id="30722399">
    <user id="490559">
    <name><![CDATA[Kristine]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 20 17:10:54 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 05 17:28:29 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my least favorite of Barbara Pym's novels so far.  I didn't like how most of the characters were anthropologists, which held no interest for me.  One of the characters dies while in Africa, leaving two women behind to mourn him.  One of them finds another boyfriend right away though, which I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30722399">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30722399]]></url>
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    <review id="24386689">
    <user id="655499">
    <name><![CDATA[Patricia]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Longmont, CO]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 12 22:23:16 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 12 22:24:30 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It looks like I've read all Barbara Pym's books in the past half-year or so. Really, it's that I'm re-reading them. And I will again, probably sooner than the 30 years or so since I first discovered her.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24386689]]></url>
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    <review id="7749662">
    <user id="210397">
    <name><![CDATA[jo]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Miami, FL]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 15 10:21:59 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 07 08:48:08 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[are books about the delights of englishness and cups of tea meant to be appreciated by people of other cultures? maybe anthropologists?]]></body>
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    <review id="11386895">
    <user id="728287">
    <name><![CDATA[Obisbooks]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pym writes with great detail but it's quiet story of academic life and anthropologists and nothing much happens.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11386895]]></url>
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    <review id="4424428">
    <user id="230982">
    <name><![CDATA[Dereka]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my very favorite Barbara Pyms.  I have read it five times (some have been listens rather than reads)]]></body>
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    <review id="4867161">
    <user id="37069">
    <name><![CDATA[Ben]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Aug 21 08:35:36 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very British comedy of manners dealing with the academic set. Clever and a pleasure to read.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4867161]]></url>
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    <review id="16871099">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nikki]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read this but am planning to re-read so I'll edit this review at that time.]]></body>
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