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  <title><![CDATA[Surrender the Pink]]></title>
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  <default_description>Dinah Kaufman writes scripts for a living, and it fits: her life is full of bad lines. Particularly with men. They are all losers. Worse, they turn her down. Imagine her feelings when she finds a real man, Rudy Gendler, polished and successful, who loves her and wants to get married.  &lt;P&gt;Alas, he is not what he seems and the marriage ends just short of disaster. Dinah pulls herself together and finds...that she still loves Rudy! How can she win him back?  &lt;P&gt;&quot;A witty, astute, voyeuristic approach to the mating ritual that confounds us all.&quot; (West Coast Review of Books)</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">8</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1990</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Surrender the Pink</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Carrie Fisher]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend actually recommended &quot;Postcards from the Edge&quot; but when I spotted &quot;Surrender the Pink&quot; sitting on the shelf at my local library, I decided to check it out first. In what is typical early '90's chick lit, &quot;Surrender the Pink&quot; follows soap opera writer, Dinah, as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48435716">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 22 18:26:10 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 22 18:30:37 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely a girly weekend read, the main topic being modern romance (really modern - difficult relationships, break ups, post-break up sex, and a dash of either poly and infidelity)  I'm curious about her description of the main character, Dinah, and what I think may be a bipolar nature - her two m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47204321">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10534031">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 16 19:57:50 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 22 12:05:00 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know what I was expecting exactly, some expose of life after Star Wars or something.  I thought it would be fun to read a book by Princess Leia!  I did realize when purchasing the book that is was not going to be what I thought, having found it in the fiction section at the book store along ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10534031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5464105">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 31 23:47:05 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 31 23:47:29 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Surrender the Pink was as enjoyable a read as Postcards from the Edge. Fisher does a good job of letting her characters age and mature although all of them remain somewhat troubled. I found Surrender the Pink an intriguing follow up to Bachelor Girl, a cultural history of the single working woman. D...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5464105">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="72414529">
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    <name><![CDATA[Boomsaki]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 24 21:03:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 24 21:04:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[great book for girls whose &quot;choosers are broken&quot; and who had absent fathers! Not a self help. Definately funny, fiction, but with underlying &quot;aha&quot; moments]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72414529]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="49263301">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 14 13:55:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 14 13:56:19 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Surprisingly this was a good (audio) book.]]></body>
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    <review id="39309771">
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  <date_added>Thu Dec 04 13:26:01 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 04 13:26:01 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Surrender the Pink by Carrie Fisher (1990)]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="2259511">
    <user id="147203">
    <name><![CDATA[Maggie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 22 11:59:36 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 23 14:38:59 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Postcards from the Edge&quot; is infinitely superior.  I love Fisher's voice and most of her descriptive/emotional asides, but the plot and the tension here was a bit lacking.  And the slapstick was a bit much.  Reputedly about her break up with Paul Simon. ]]></body>
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    <review id="35538343">
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    <name><![CDATA[Tabby]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 17 06:30:38 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[After seeing Carrie Fisher live in Wishful Drinking, I went out and bought 3 of her books (having already read Postcards from the Edge). Funny lady. ]]></body>
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    <review id="19848019">
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 09 23:10:36 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 10 04:49:38 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because I really like Carrie Fisher, but was disappointed. The characters were predictable and the story mediocre. A decent holiday read. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19848019]]></url>
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    <review id="18785532">
    <user id="1028408">
    <name><![CDATA[Dwynne]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Placerville, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Mar 27 14:02:55 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Blech.  I read 3/4 of it before moving on to another book.  I began it because its supposed to be &quot;searingly funny&quot; but it's not. I was bored.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18785532]]></url>
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    <review id="3767448">
    <user id="232444">
    <name><![CDATA[Noel]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 29 19:40:27 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 02 12:03:55 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Captures with aching, vivid eloquence the pain of losing the one you love and seeing them happy with someone else. <br/><br/>(review written 7/15/04)]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3767448]]></url>
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    <review id="18267790">
    <user id="1010953">
    <name><![CDATA[Jillleann62]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Germany]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Mar 21 01:03:04 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 21 01:06:01 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ An older book,but i re-read it every so often. Carrie Fisher is one of my favorite writers and this is another fun book to read. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18267790]]></url>
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    <review id="27387173">
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 15 21:35:21 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 15 21:35:45 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed Postcards from the Edge so much so I read this one too.  Good book.]]></body>
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    <review id="13684983">
    <user id="807737">
    <name><![CDATA[Misti]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 1992</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jan 26 21:18:32 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fuck yeah, that's all I got to say. &quot;it's never really over...it's just over there.&quot;]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13684983]]></url>
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    <review id="18777177">
    <user id="1021254">
    <name><![CDATA[Maren]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always related a little more to this novel of hers.]]></body>
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    <review id="38269151">
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    <body><![CDATA[Surrender the Pink by Carrie Fisher (1990)]]></body>
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    <review id="21610372">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sun]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny and truthful - painfully so. ]]></body>
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