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    <body><![CDATA[Capsule Review:  Don't Read Walker Percy.  Ever.<br/><br/>Longer Review:  If somebody recommends this book (or any other of his books) to you, rest assured that that he will one day soon try to convince you that the Eagles really are rock n' roll.  Afterwards, he will probably inflict some of his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18283611">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent satiric take on self-help books with a lot of interesting philosophical questions posed. Well-done and thought-provoking.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Um, well, that was quite a trip.<br/><br/>I can't remember who or where I came across this book though I do recall it being mentioned in another book at one point.  This is again a read that I began a while before but never had a chance to devote much attention to until now.<br/><br/>'Lost in th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48583423">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I recently reread this one and recommended it to a friend.  I don't think I could possibly do it justice with a review.  And I want to look for some of the reviews it got when it came out.  Essentially this is book about our &quot;selves&quot; and our understanding of the world which we construct an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40907303">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found a clean hardcover copy at the Chapel Hill Public Library sale.... It was on my shelf to read after the Thanatos Syndrome, figuring that this would be the more obscure read.  Instead, I found this book more engaging.  It is a peculiar book, a little bit like an earlier David Foster Wallace, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10258157">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read and reread this book half a dozen times and have no doubt that number will reach a dozen or more during the course of my lifetime.  It is, first of all, absolutely hilarious: a subtler, non-narrative, written precursor to &quot;I Heart Huckabees.&quot;  Who are we?  Why are we here? What...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2903905">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is great for people who like to ask ridiculous hypothetical questions about scenarios that would never happen in a million years (i.e. if the world was about to end, what would you do?).  This is definitely not a feel-good self help book, but it is extremely amusing and I think everyone sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71446033">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a terrific book. It has tests at the end of the chapters,surreal tests. It has chapter titles like &quot;Why is Carl Sagan so Lonely? It's just a hoot.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A grounded and hilarious response to a society that denies bases for anything. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, so it's been over 20 years since I read this, but I remember enjoying it tremendously at the time..... hard to go wrong with Walker Percy (I think, perhaps, many people might agree?). Funny, irreverent, witty, and eye-opening.... and on more than just one level. While not every chapter may 'hit'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30769333">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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