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  <title><![CDATA[The Promise]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Danielle Steel]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 26 15:45:31 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[	A poor girl marries a rich boy and is unacceptable to her new mother-in-law. When she is in a car accident and terribly disfigured, her mother-in-law pays for her reconstructive surgery on the condition that she will disappear from her son's life. This was a TV movie (and Ms Steele wrote the books ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8293031">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was just ok for me. It was very predictable and so so boring. I kept reading in hopes that it picked up towards the middle or the end somehow but no. The end was just what it was the END. Its likd DS was in a hurry to finish the book. It just was not the best book by DS.]]></body>
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    <review id="53540769">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first novel I ever really got into as a general have to read every book made by this author.  Eventually after about 20 of her novels, they became the same.  This still remains my fav. book, as I can nearly read it by memory. I have read it several times in life now.]]></body>
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    <review id="63292260">
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    <body><![CDATA[My wife and I both had our seventh grade teacher read this book to us. Years later, I was in a band with the authors son for a few weeks before he was kicked out for drug use. Oh yea, the book... It was pretty awful.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Mar 20 05:32:44 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book so long ago... But I remember loving it.  It was different then the normal lovey dovey stuff.  It's totally not believable but who reads these types of stories for their believablity?  ]]></body>
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    <review id="62839263">
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  <read_at>Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 09 17:53:18 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One part of the story didn't make sense to me. How could you not ask about a funeral if your fiancee died in an accident that you survived?!That was the only part I found to be out of sync with anything else.]]></body>
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    <review id="68352501">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1979</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[First Romance story I ever read and it really touched my heart.  It was a story we had to read in English class, I hugged my teacher when I finished it. ]]></body>
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    <review id="74262734">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first favourite book back when I was 14. I've long since tired of Steel's repetitive plots but this one remains a sentimental favourite.]]></body>
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    <review id="47591898">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Feb 26 08:58:49 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the only Danielle Steel book I have ever read, but I remember loving this book.  It was a LONG time ago.  Boy am I old.]]></body>
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    <review id="74714610">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Oct 16 07:08:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved this book even when I realized I had seen the movie about 6yrs earlier (clicked in about chapter 4)]]></body>
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    <review id="54863414">
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not a fan of her books, but my friend recommended it.  It was alright....watch out for the language =0)]]></body>
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    <review id="43544534">
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  <date_updated>Sun Jan 18 22:34:52 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite book in the whole world. Never fails to make me cry everytime I read it. A classic.]]></body>
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    <review id="68442125">
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was a teenager, I read a lot of her books. I think this was the best book she ever wrote.]]></body>
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    <review id="60508594">
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 21 08:28:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the only Danielle Steel that I liked. To be honest, I only read a few more.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="54218448">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nancyboat]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the first &quot;romance&quot; books I ever read.  I have fond memories of it - loved it!]]></body>
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    <review id="61463168">
    <user id="524476">
    <name><![CDATA[Dennis]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yeah I read it what. Cried too. It was a long time ago. Get over it.]]></body>
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    <review id="46155001">
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    <body><![CDATA[don't usually like danielle steel, but this was wonderful!]]></body>
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    <review id="58197545">
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I ABOSLUTELY ADORE THIS BOOK! IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL! :')]]></body>
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    <review id="46854071">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ari]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my fave book. Want to read it again.]]></body>
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    <review id="40725257">
    <user id="1373406">
    <name><![CDATA[Serena]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[my first novel that i read of hers loved it ]]></body>
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