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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>You or Someone Like You</strong> - Chandler Burr<br/>About the title -- at first i read it like a Miranda July title, sort of like <strong>You, Me and Everyone We Know</strong> or <strong>No One Belongs Here More Than You</strong>. July focuses in wonder on everyone, a loving awe of the flawed perfection in everyone. In retrospect i've deci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62659864">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is delicious revenge porn for all those who value reading and critical thinking over reality TV-deadened cultural ignorance and thuggish, talk radio-induced fanaticism. Heck, it deserves four stars alone for being a most impassioned argument for how book clubs can save the world!<br/><br/>Sub...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77119857">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This really should have been two different novels. I think the author tried to do/say too much in this novel.  Howard is a Hollywood bigwig and his wife Anne is, well, his wife.  Both have Phd's in literature.  Novel #1's plot begins when she inadvertently begins a book club for movie industry elite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79312899">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fascinating book. There were lots of subjects to ponder: religion, literature, elitism, culturalism, mid-life crisis, homosexuality of a child, and marriage. I was impressed with the author's courage in promoting the idea that the Jewish community has it's own brand of racism. The main ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60978121">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretentious. It was obviously a male writing a female protagonist, because she came off slightly empty, flat. This was a vanity piece written for the author to tell us that Judaism is an exclusionary religion and that's bad. All the Hollywood name-dropping was irritating and didn't really serve a pu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70541999">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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