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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted very much to like this book. I loved the main character Annie and her friend Jake, and Annie's sister Opal. However, I could not relate to the characters in any way - and I should have, because there were a lot of personal similarities - and I found the premise to be unbelievable, perhaps u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16142970">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title is self-prophetic, as this book is clearly the WORST thing Hegi has ever done.  Lord have mercy, did this book draaaag.  (Which is a cryin' shame, because the premise had such potential.)  I hated every one of the characters in this book.  Hegi's purpose for the book was obviously to creat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8997092">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  Ursula, My Dear, I'm afraid it was this book.  What happened to the author of STONES IN THE RIVER?  Yeah, there was lots of water and Mutter rhapsodies, but the basic plot....Annie, Jake and Mason.....and a kid named Opal---this menage was unmenageable.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For some reason I’ve avoided reading Ursula Hegi’s books since her brilliant Stones From the River.  I don’t know why, because I loved that book.  Maybe I thought they would all be set in Germany, or during the war, or something.  Thank goodness I decided to read The Worst Thing I’ve Done.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63619059">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was really more of a 2 1/2 star book for me, but I *love* Hegi's writing, so was more generous.  It is a somewhat dark book, but I got very caught up in the story, as well as in Annie and Opal's characters.  My two big criticisms are that I didn't care for the shifting narrator (especially Stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11636119">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book up because I loved Hegi's &quot;Stones from the River&quot;.  I think that was one of the best books I ever read.  &quot;The Worst Thing I've Done&quot;  does not come close to that.  It is the story of Annie, Mason, and Jake who's lives were intertwined beginning in early childho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64885250">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[on a whim, i pulled this book from a shelf at the library.  though i'd never read anything by ursula hegi, i recalled that, years ago, someone had enthusiastically mentioned ms. hegi's 'stones from the river' to me; based on this faintly recalled recommendation, i decided to become better acquainted...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38527689">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I sort of read a string of pretty disappointing books over the fall.  This might be the worst of the lot.  From irritating typeface to unlikeable characters (even the ghost you sort of wish would just sort of die again and go away) to a plot that hinged around the most ludicrous hidden secret reveal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42145686">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think this story lent itself to the audio format.  The changes of narration both back and forth in time and from person to person was confusing enough, but throw in dialog that just ends ... <br/><br/>I also felt that the Aunt and all of the political propaganda surrounding her entry in th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51435195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don’t know whether it was the title or the name Ursula Hegi that reminded me there was some book she wrote that i always thought i should read (tho i couldn’t remember which one) that made me want to read The Worst Thing I’ve Done but something did. And i’m glad i did. It is a story of chi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22886443">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was another book with a character who has committed suicide. I seem to be drawn to depressing stories lately for some reason. But it focuses on the characters who are left behind and their sense of guilt and grief, and the dynamics of the triangle relationship between the main character and the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16248842">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The structure of this book is interesting: each chapter starts off with a portion of the last diary entry that Mason, a character who has committed suicide just before the start of the novel, left behind. The font is made to look like handwriting.<br/><br/>Hegi skillfully ties these bits and piece...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6511201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I expected to like this way more than I did.  This novel explores a messed-up threesome of childhood friends and follows a grieving widow after her husband commits suicide.  I normally don't like Kirkus reviews but they summed it up well, &quot;Extremely readable, but thoroughly unpleasant.&quot;  G...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69565699">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was seriously disappointed to the point that I didn't finish this book. I can't remember the last time I did that. I give books until page 100 to grab me when they don't immediately, and this one never did and I abandoned it. Perhaps I should have stuck with it because Hegi's writing is stellar - ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49427155">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[another love triangle. these are really interesting. i may have to create a shelf because this is a cool and juicy kind of book. i know Jodi Piccoult did it in that one where the father is a magician, (will clarify that title), and of course archie betty and veronica.i think there are others and im ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60284664">more...</a>]]></body>
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