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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of the moodiest books I have ever read.  A well-to-do African American family come together for the funeral of the family patriarch, a judge who once was in the running for a Supreme Court seat, but because of his connection with &quot;Uncle Jack,&quot; a shadowy underworld figure, remo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20792589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, so I finally finished the book and I really liked it! In addition to the use of the terms &quot;darker nation&quot; and &quot;paler nation&quot;, which I thought was a simple but wonderful way to distinguish the races (I tire of having to say black and white), the writing was really quite good. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3700263">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What's funny is that the very reason I loved this book so much at first is the reason I sort of was bored at the end -- the mystery is almost secondary to the the characters and relationships in the book.  A number of the reviews have said the book was slow, but for the first 3/4 of the book, that d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50295747">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even though it took me FOREVER to finish, I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would.  Had it been 100-200 pages shorter and the editing a bit tighter, I would have given it a five star rating.<br/><br/>The characters are what drew me into the book and kept me there.  While I've certainly see...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38769196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know what it is about lawyers writing complicated thrillers but, evidently, they're pretty good at it. I think Grisham is the one everyone knows but after reading &quot;The Emporer of Ocean Park&quot; I say there's a new gun in town and his name is Stephen L. Carter. <br/><br/>I heard abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23098525">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Downloaded from <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://Audible.com">Audible.com</a><br/><br/>Narrator: Peter Francis James<br/>Publisher: Random House Audio, 2002<br/>Length: 6 hours and 6 min. (abridged)<br/><br/>Publisher's Summary<br/>An extraordinary fiction debut: a large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10483778">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best books I ever read.  It is part thriller, part peak into black Martha's Vineyard, part academia.  So many interesting twists and characters.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter. is a quite compelling if not evenly flowing or artistic read. It's an ambitious book that works on many different levels. As a first time novelist, Carter should have stuck to one or two, but in the end you are glad that he didn't.[return][return]As a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43213473">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was pretty disappointed with this book.  The story begins with the unexpected death of a father/judge.  The family hasn't been particularly close in years but the daughter and son, Talcott begin to believe through a series of bizarre incidents that their father was murdered.  Their father left Tal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43041173">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first picked up The Emperor of Ocean Park I was in high school and I saw it on an episode of Girlfriends. Talking about the influence television has on a person. I so wanted to be Joan, reading super sophisticated books and such. So I made up in my mind that I would seek this book out. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81113638">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Emperor of Ocean Park is told from the viewpoint of Talcott Garland.  He is an Ivy League law professor; his wife is working towards Partner in her prestigious law firm; his father was nominated to be a Supreme Court judge, but then something happened...but what?  This is at the heart of the mys...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80680498">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not great literature, but a compelling murder mystery set at the unusual crossroads of personal morality, organized crime, and the inner sanctum of the U.S. Supreme Court.     ]]></body>
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