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    <body><![CDATA[Forgettable.<br/><br/>I found a copy in a used-book store, and the friend I was browsing it with tried to dissuade me from purchasing it because, and I quote her, &quot;It's not very good.&quot; I should have listened to her. I ended up selling the copy back to the store.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the first few stories, but then had to return the book to the library. I'll probably take it out again in the spring semester, but I'm in no particular hurry.]]></body>
    
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