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    <body><![CDATA[David Gerrold calls his book a novel.  I would like to suggest that he wrote a memoir instead.  He definitely touched me.  I know this kid, his martian child.  I know this kid well.  I spent 16 years of my life, more actually when adding volunteer work and additional contacts, with this kid.  My mar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63056369">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is a very different story from the movie.  The end of the book is somewhat different in style, I thought, a kind of stream-of-consciousness journey inside the mind of the author as he struggles to do the right thing.  I wish I could have felt more sympathetic for him at that point but - rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27007287">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a bit wary about reading this because I am not a fan of overly emotional, heartwarming tales of love and suffering and ultimate triumph. But I found this book to be emotional without being overwrought. The author writes beautifully and has some pretty great descriptions. <br/><br/>However, i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21905495">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written in the first person, Gerrold writes about the bureaucratic struggles involved in adopting a child, specifically, Dennis. He saw the boy in a social worker's photo book of foster children and just had to meet him. Dennis was 8 years old, an abused child who had already been bounced through se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10686258">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was incredibly frustrating. I stumbled across it at the library and picked it up because I’d heard that it’s being made into a movie starring John Cusack. I was also somewhat intrigued by the premise, which is based on the author’s own life: a single, gay sci-fi writer decides he wan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1663834">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Martian Child was disappointing to me mostly because of the way it was presented. A few of the labels I've seen have presented this novella as the story of a single gay father adopting a child who believes he's from Mars. <br/><br/>The problem was having this expectation in my head, there was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3830111">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting book, good read but I was confused about it's veracity.  It felt autobiographical but the cover states novel.<br/><br/>If it was a novel there was too many blank spaces.  Reviews say it was based on the authors experience adopting a small boy, so why say it's a novel?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A single-father adopts an 8yo boy who thinks he is a Martian.  He has a lot of other issues, as a boy who's bounced around the system for eight years.  The book is semi-autobiographical.  The author's son didn't think he was a Martian, but I think a lot of it came from his own experiences.  If not, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3416046">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In  my line of work I am interested in children and the fact that some people don't want their children makes me sad. This book is about a child like this and it is a sweet story- the movie was ok.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a sweet, heartwarming story.  Despite the difficulties with this child - and there were/are many - this man is committed to him.  There are so many adoptive parents just like him who provide stable, loving homes for hard to place kids, and it's a hard, often seemingly impossible, job.  Furth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47646567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  I got to meet the author last night and discuss this book.  Very touching story.  A great look at parenting with love and humanity.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not  great work of literature, but a sweet story by the author of one of my other favorite books, The Man Who Folded Himself.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have loved this book since I read it in novella format.  A beautiful story of a science fiction writer adopting an 8 year old child, considered &quot;unadoptable&quot; and threatened to be abandoned by the system.  It tracks the up and downs of this child, who thinks he's a Martian, as he learns t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4597088">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was cute and fun, and it was sad that the movie sucked alot.  I'd rather give it a 3.5 than a four, but a three is too low.  <br/><br/>The premise - a single gay man adopts a kid w/ attachment issues.  <br/><br/>I think the main character (the adopting father) is just a little too suave and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26543453">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book that the movie was based on and I enjoyed reading it, but I think I liked the movie better.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a wonderful memoir!  I happened to pick this up because I had seen the movie and wanted to see how they compared and I really enjoyed them both.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very sweet and very funny:) I especially enjoyed the author's insights into authors and storytelling. Some great quotes.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i liked the book better than the movie (duh), but both were great.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read several books dealing with the issue of adoption or children in foster care.  They never seem to have happy endings, so I was content with the honest account of how David Gerrold adopted a child who already had social and emotional scars from his birth family and from the foster system, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29290443">more...</a>]]></body>
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