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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not entirely sure how this was meant to be about the last days of publishing, it just seemed like the account of a man's career ending. Moreover, the voyeuristic undertones of the narrators interactions with women made me kind of ill. The prose itself was at times compelling, and, being written ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35054217">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You know how when you're reading a book you know you SHOULD read and you SHOULD like and the voice in your head just starts yelling &quot;Don't Care. Don't Care. Don't Care&quot; and then you just CAN'T read it? That's how I feel about this book. Don't Care. Don't Care. Don't Care. Sorry.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A story that ended up being more about the protaganist's midlife crisis and remembrances of the '60s than about the publishing industry.]]></body>
    
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