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  <title><![CDATA[Golden Days (California Fiction)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Available again in paperback, &lt;i&gt;Golden Days&lt;/i&gt; is a major novel from one of the most provocative voices on the American literary scene. Linking the recent past with an imagined future, Carolyn See captures life in Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s. This marvelously imaginative, hilarious, and original work offers fresh insights into the way we were, the way we are, and the way we could end up.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far this book is SO weird. Carolyn See is sort of the grand dame of serious California/Los Angeles fiction. This book is one of those writers' writers unheralded classics, and I've been wanting to read it for a long time. It begins in Topanga Canyon in the summer of 1980, and it feels like the la...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10921512">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[What a strange reading experience this was. I spent the first three-fourths of this novel HATING it—I hated the narrator, who I found racist, classist, and just plain unpleasant; I hated the purported “feminism” the characters spouted, which to me boiled down to an icky “men are pricks, so l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8322797">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1987</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book touched me in such a deep way.  It actually spoke to me. It spoke to who I am, how quirky I can be and it spoke to who I would like to be: without worry.  In the plot of the book one thing sang to me constantly: the people who were facing supremely troubled times decided to either be happy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65603894">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kinda like 2 books. One, a very 80's-ish feminist type thing which kinda irritated me and two, a novel about an apocalyptic los angeles, which is hard to resist, so I was kinda conflicted. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[1988<br/>2008<br/><br/>Holds up well, as magical realism apocalyptic fairytale]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Carolyn See.]]></body>
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