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    <body><![CDATA[Filmmaker Weber Greston discovers his best friend has killed himself.  Also a filmmaker, Philip Strayhorn, best known for his <em>Midnight</em> films, leaves Weber a videotape in lieu of an explanation for his suicide.  In the process of watching the tap Weber discovers how little he knew his best friend, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52429696">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Disappointing by comparison with The Land of Laughs, which remains one of my favorite books.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A Child Across the Sky brought to light a very interesting side of good vs. evil in our lives. Carroll knows how to reach into people, taking the struggles, fears and feelings and give birth to human emotions that often are lacking in characters. As always there is a touch of the surrealin his writi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34332114">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read in Portland, from the bookshelf in the kitchen. (Thank you, A.)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Finishing <em>Child Across the Sky</em> felt like awakening from a strange dream in the middle of the day when I hadn't realized I'd even fallen asleep. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My first book by Jonathan Carroll--I was hooked!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[WOW!  What an imaginative story!]]></body>
    
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