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  <title><![CDATA[Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable&#8217;s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County&#8211;to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto&#8211;pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.</default_description>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Patient appreciators of intense, funny, heartfelt literature; Irving fans.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the new John Irving novel and it's something special.  I've read a number of the man's novels and I can honestly say that <em>Last Night in Twisted River</em> is like nothing -- not from him, nor from anyone else -- I've read before.  If you think Irving may have lost his touch; think again.  His hea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74600516">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since I saw the film &quot;The World According to Garp&quot; at age eleven I have wondered to myself what exactly did John Irving survive in his past?  I have waited patiently for nearly thirty years to find out.  I haven't ever read a single thing about John Irving's personal life; because figuring...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75600309">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 16 12:37:00 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't wait for this book to come out in October!]]></body>
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    <review id="78220576">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thoroughly enjoyed John Irving’s latest; but not in the way I usually do. I always read his novels as stories. I assume that there is some level of autobiography in all his books and I am aware of his recurring themes (how could you not be?) and his distinctive writing style but I read him for t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78220576">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74788050">
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd give this 3.5 stars if I knew how to do that. The first third or so of Irving's lastest is a bit of a slog. I found the descriptions repetitious and felt the story meandered. But I stuck with it (unlike his last book, Until I Find You, which I quit after five pages; and I'm an Irving fan who cou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74788050">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Nov 18 19:48:49 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a big John Irving fan, I was really looking forward to this book and while it took me a while to get into it, I did enjoy this one which is, a homage to.....John Irving.  The main character is an author, his books have plots very similar to Irving's, they win similar awards, screen plays are writ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78270811">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74746355">
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 16 12:16:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 16 12:23:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I believe this book is destined to become a classic.  It's a LONG book but the characters pull you into their lives.  I began enjoying it as a history of the logging industry in the East and then got wrapped up in murder and three generations of flawed and loving characters throughout their ordinary...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74746355">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76307195">
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, so if Irving doesn't at least get shortlisted for the 2010 Pulitzer with this one, there's something up. This novel spans some amazing years of change and social upheaval in America, following the brave story of a man protecting his son. Irving writing about questions of nationalism seemed sligh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76307195">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 30 11:07:02 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 06 15:41:50 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, I am conflicted about this book.  I love John Irving and I love the stories he has to tell, but this novel just felt like a giant mess.  It definitely could've done with drastic editing.  The endless repetition nearly drove me crazy.  He also seemed to dwell on insignificant events while glossi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76219176">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 02 12:58:41 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two sensations overtook me while reading &quot;Last Night in Twisted River&quot;. The first I noticed very early and the second appearing later, maybe in part II, with ever growing intensity until the end.<br/><br/>What I noticed very early is how &quot;aware&quot; I was of the writing. The author...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76504112">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You know those people who lick the inside of an Oreo cookie out and then don't eat the chocolate cookies?  They might like this book; only the middle was good.<br/><br/>The Sept 2009 goodreads newsletter had an interview with Anita Diamante where she discussed cutting extra words and how she keeps...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70467953">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70338419">
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    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6323821.Last_Night_in_Twisted_River_A_Novel" title="Last Night in Twisted River  A Novel by John Irving">Last Night in Twisted River</a> was a book that took me awhile to get into. But, once I got a few chapters in, I found myself enjoying it. It's not one of the best books I've ever read, but I would recommend it to others. I like how circular the book is, but found the weaving in and out of past and pres...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70338419">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72367080">
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 24 13:01:06 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 22 11:46:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Last Night in Twisted River is very similar to his early works. You'll read familiar things, such as New England, bear, wrestling, Iowa, accidents (lots of accidents), sexual relationships between young men and older women, sexually active but asexual women, main character being a writer, severing o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72367080">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73130899">
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    <location><![CDATA[Peterborough, ON, Canada]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Nov 01 13:14:41 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[All of John Irvings novels have many recurring themes throughout them and he has admitted this himself. He has also said that his favourite authors are from the 19th century, which colours his writing to a large degree.<br/>This story begins with a tragedy and you know that the narrative will invol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73130899">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73113201">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book took me a long time to read, for a couple of reasons.  first off, it's long, and i'm busy.  but, mostly, because i enjoy john irving so much, i really take pleasure in reading his books and not rushing through them.<br/><br/>there are still some very &quot;irving&quot; things in this boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73113201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76372682">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a big John Irving fan I started reading this the minute I could get my hands on it.  It is pure Irving: bears, dead mother's, freak accidents, amputations, the whole bit.  You will sit back and instantly enter the Irving world of great story telling and wild characters.  That said, the plot meand...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76372682">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70339143">
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't have the heart to write much of a review for this one but I'm going to write something since I won this in a giveaway and the point of the giveaway is for people to review the books.  <br/><br/>If you're an Irving fanatic, you should find something to love about this book.  There are bears...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70339143">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It seems the older John Irving gets, the darker his writing. I love him anyway, but he always sneaks in something to startle you, like the car wreck in Garp, or the finger cut off in Owen Meany, or that Homer doesn't become a doctor in Cider House Rules. This one is no different. But his characters ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77658737">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For me, Irving writes books as Beethoven wrote music -- in a minor key. The books are supposedly comedies. They are not to me. They are melancholy reflections on the lives we all lead -- the loves, the misses, the lives, the deaths, the greatest fears, the surprises, the essential ingredients for st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68839924">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Last Night in Twisted River</em> begins in rural New Hampshire in 1954, when 12 year old Danny accidentally mistakes his father's lover for a bear and kills her with a cast iron skillet. This forces the father and son to go on the run from the woman's boyfriend, the evil local constable. The book include...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76693094">more...</a>]]></body>
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