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  <title><![CDATA[It Feels So Good When I Stop]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joe Pernice]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Apr 17 06:48:52 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's not every novel that can make you laugh out loud in the grimmest of settings--the L train at 9:30 a.m., or waiting for the doctor in a purple paper gown, to take two examples from last week. Pernice is hilarious, and his sentences are marvels of wit and compression. On the downside, this novel ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53006683">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 17 04:49:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm more than usually torn on what to make of this book; I read Meat is Murder with almost no expectations, and was really moved by it. I was raring to go, then, with this, the some sort of follow-up, or at least next book by the same writer. And I love the soundtrack album.<br/><br/>The book itself...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71524579">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[fans of Six Feet Under and High Fidelity, citizens of Massachusetts ]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 20 15:26:13 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;When I met Jocelyn I knew within minutes I was going to either marry her or completely destroy my life trying. It never occurred to me that both things could happen.&quot; <br/><br/>Thus our unnamed narrator tells us what's what, in this story of a twentysomething muso wastrel who escapes hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68245370">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[After hearing so-so reviews from a couple of friends, I didn't go into it with the highest expectations, despite having loved <em>Meat is Murder</em> (and the Pernice Brothers). I was pleasantly surprised, though. I think I read the whole thing in about three hours because I was quite interested in the chara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71167433">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 26 07:22:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good bunch of characters here: a conflicted man who's just split with his wife; his crazy brother in law; a strange woman who lives down the street. The  book moves with the descriptions of these three, and also between the present time and the past, going back to when the main character first met h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75763318">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[indie-rock singer for Pernice Brothers and Scud Mountain Boys writes novel about slacker post-collegiate indie-rock dude and his lousy relationships. Bitter and hilarious. Particularly love the mention of the Chills' &quot;Rolling Moon.&quot; ]]></body>
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    <review id="61922005">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Joe Pernice is not just a great storyteller; he has an ear for authentic dialogue and an eye for the striking detail that makes It Feels So Good When I Stop a sweet and entertaining joy to read. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61922005]]></url>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[misanthropists from Cape Cod]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Sep 28 11:10:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The guys in the book were just too vulgar and dickish for me to root for. Which sort of surprised me, having been a big fan of Joe Pernice's music, which tends towards the sensitive and heartbroken. I guess you could give him extra points for writing about people (hopefully) not like him. But the bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67700296">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The soundtrack is far better than the book.]]></body>
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    <review id="76822931">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great read.]]></body>
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    <review id="69192355">
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    <name><![CDATA[Tim]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Too clever for its own good with dialog that should have never left the locker room.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was trying to read this, but its seems like all Pernice does is try to come up with different ways to say the f-word. I'm usually all for the f-word, but he was really tedious about it and I couldn't handle it anymore.]]></body>
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    <review id="68236018">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A bit of a disappointment...I thought it'd be more humorous. There were some clever parts, but they were too few for me.  Maybe it just wasn't my style or the right mood. Oh well...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't believe I read it all the way through.]]></body>
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