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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;SHADOW BOX is one of George Plimpton's most engaging looks at professional sport through the eyes of an amateur.&lt;br&gt;	Stepping into the ring against the light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, Plimpton pauses to wonder why he ever became a participatory journalist. Bloodied but unbowed, he holds his own in the bout - and brings back this timeless look at boxing and its devotees, among them Muhammed Ali, Joe Frazier, Ernest Hemingway, and Norman Mailer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I cannot think of any other book that I've deliberately delayed finishing.  Plimpton's writing is delightful, and it's clear that he enjoys participating in the subject he covers.  Anyone interested in the major heavyweight boxers of the past half-century - Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77585040">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[great book if you like boxing.  he touches on many sides of the sport and also diverges into stories that have nothing to do with boxing at all.  Hemingway is just as much of a main character as Muhammad Ali.  however, the book flows very well and does not seem scatterbrained.  I really enjoy Plimpt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28347347">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book feels like an afterthought, and the subject matter is scattered and only vaguely unified. But the work is fantastic, and would've been better served had it been marketed as a collection of essays. The Lyons Press has published a number of GP's books, perhaps in reprint I don't know, but whe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2021339">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ali is just the tip of the iceburg of 20th century greats that Americana's all-star intellectual Plimpton gives us insight into in Shadow Box. Think Hemingway, Mailer, Foreman, Hunter Thompson, Malcom X... ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[better than just 5 stars would indicate.]]></body>
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