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  <title><![CDATA[Stranger Things Happen: Stories]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;p&gt;&quot;An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and &lt;i&gt;Buffy the Vampire Slayer.&lt;/i&gt;&quot;-Salon.com (Best of the Year)&lt;/p&gt; 		&lt;p&gt;&quot;A delightful collection.&quot;-&lt;i&gt;Cleveland Plain Dealer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 		&lt;p&gt;&quot;My favorite fantasy writer.&quot;-Alan Cheuse, &lt;i&gt;All Things Considered&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 		&lt;p&gt;The eleven stories in Kelly Link's debut collection are funny, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. They were all especially written for you. A Best of the Year pick from Salon.com, &lt;i&gt;Locus, The Village Voice,&lt;/i&gt; and&lt;i&gt; San Francisco Chronicle.&lt;/i&gt; Includes Nebula, World Fantasy, and Tiptree award-winning stories. &lt;/p&gt; 		&lt;p&gt; 				&lt;b&gt;Kelly Link&lt;/b&gt; lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, although she can often be found driving across the country.&lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kelly Link]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Short Stories. This was stamped &quot;science fiction&quot; by the library, but these short, fantastic stories have more in common with magical realism and retold fairy tales than science- or even speculative fiction. Plenty of ghosts, being dead, being haunted, dating a son of Zeus, searching for t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1716341">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Jan 21 05:59:36 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 21 05:59:46 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book of surreal short stories that would vie with Hurakami for the strangest stories I’ve ever read. Unlike Hurakami, however, there is no Kafkaesque feeling of alienation; the odd people in these stories seem generally content with the craziness of their lives. What kind of stories are these? H...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13036936">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 07 13:55:55 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 07 13:58:33 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I spent most of the length of this book dying to finish the damn thing already so that I could sit down and write about how much and why I didn't like it.<br/><br/>Then I read &quot;The Girl Detective,&quot; the last story in the collection.<br/><br/>I still can't quite say that I like the stori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5858352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6302459">
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 16 19:34:25 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 16 19:37:59 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book changed my life. isn't that an annoying review? but it did! i remember reading it in big breathless gulps during an intense rainstorm on marco island, and feeling like i was reading stories i'd been waiting my whole life to read--they were that dream-blend of suprirising + familiar. and ju...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6302459">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69671962">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 01 07:29:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 01 07:58:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book will sleep with you on the first date.  Then when you wake up beside it in the early morning you will spend some serious time considering whether it was great, or whether it would have been better to wait a bit.<br/><br/>For me it was a bit wild, which I like, from a book, but also a lit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69671962">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 24 11:44:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 24 11:44:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book of surreal short stories that would vie with Hurakami for the strangest stories I’ve ever read. Unlike Hurakami, however, there is no Kafkaesque feeling of alienation; the odd people in these stories seem generally content with the craziness of their lives. What kind of stories are these? H...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64805429">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53265406">
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 19 16:03:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 19 16:04:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Stranger Things Happen&quot; is Kelly Link's freshman work of fiction. Within it are eleven exquisitely crafted short stories which range from weird to the truly bizarre. It is difficult to categorize Link's writing, as it seems to straddle science fiction and fantasy, narrative and fiction, r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53265406">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13589813">
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    <name><![CDATA[Debbie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 25 21:23:16 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 31 04:34:41 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rather brilliant, I'm sure, stories that were horror and/or fantasy themed, but in Link's attempt to be literary I'm afraid she lost me on a number of the tales. There were a few that I quite fancied (the Snow Queen one, in particular) but the ones that left me scratching my head outnumbered them. I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13589813">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50759080">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 28 18:41:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 01 22:35:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book, but I wasn't expecting to have to work as hard as I did.  When I pick up James Joyce or Thomas Pynchon (which I don't...I'm just giving examples of non-linear, postmodern, absurd, abstract prose) I expect to have a little trouble understanding the themes, the characters or even th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50759080">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2805477">
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    <name><![CDATA[Thalia]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 07 13:20:44 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 09 08:53:11 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was drawn in by the first story, &quot;Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose.&quot; If I told you it was about a horny dead guy's attempts to communicate with his wife, that would be like saying &quot;A Midsummer Night's Dream&quot; was about fairies n'shit. It was so good it made me cry and curse the heave...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2805477">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61317513">
    <user id="205963">
    <name><![CDATA[Lindsay]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 27 15:01:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 09 18:56:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am sorry.  I feel guilty.  I feel like I've cheated on a boyfriend.  I got <em>Pretty Monsters</em> a while ago, but wasn't totally thrilled and decided to backtrack.  Start from the beginning.  I was so very excited to read <em>Stranger Things Happen</em> because I have faith I will adore Kelly Link, but it ended ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61317513">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="676061">
    <user id="56479">
    <name><![CDATA[Res]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Apr 11 11:51:09 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm afraid there's a sameness to Link's writing. Grotesquerie, quirky refusal of all resolution. It's a delight for one story (especially when you encounter it somewhere like F&amp;SF, surrounded by the trite and self-serious) but in a collection it quickly becomes annoying. <br/><br/>Favorite stories...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/676061">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1170542">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nicholas]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri May 11 20:17:28 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Intriguing push of the English language, but not every story works out. Sometimes you're asking yourself if it's really worth it. Louise's Death and Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water are stories where her plot and her inspection of character actually feel complete at the end.]]></body>
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    <review id="3516043">
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    <name><![CDATA[Adam]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[The bizarre gene splicing of Donald Barthelme and Robert Aickman is the best description of this(maybe the short work of Gene Wolfe, Jeffrey Ford,or M.John Harrison is another comparison), joins the short list of Americans I read(god I'm pretentious)]]></body>
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    <review id="72054566">
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 21 18:06:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you ever wanted me to read a book, any book, you would promise me this:  you would promise fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators, extraterrestrials, amnesiacs, honeymooners, revenants and ghosts.  You would promise to be seriously spooky and smart.  You would also promise happy endings, biz...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72054566">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50512195">
    <user id="718377">
    <name><![CDATA[Arwen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Boston, MA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Mar 26 09:19:17 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 26 09:41:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My parents gave me this collection of short stories a few years ago for Christmas. . . I was apprehensive, but hooked from the start.  Link not only has a gift for storytelling and creates fantastic scenarios and characters, but the stories do not follow any sort of formula nor are they even necessa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50512195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kelly Link's stories are consistently evocative, strange, and told with confidence. But despite the obvious similarities in style among all the stories in this collection, I thought some of them worked a whole lot better than others. &quot;Louise's Ghost&quot;, &quot;Most of My Friends Are Two-Third...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45249468">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished this collection of shorts yesterday, and like most collections, I enjoyed some, and some, not so much. Actually, I almost quit reading these after the first story (&quot;Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose&quot;) because it was...well, strange. I am glad I pressed on however, as they got better a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38894327">more...</a>]]></body>
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