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  <title><![CDATA[The Fifth Sacred Thing]]></title>
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  <default_description>An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the   potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century   California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on   tolerance, the other on repression. Reprint.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1993</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Starhawk]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 01 21:45:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 27 23:02:56 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A re-read. I love this book unreservedly. I'm not particularly fond of the whole new age ideology. I'm not a believer in any of the recognizable religions, including Paganism. I worship at the altar of science. And yet I buy this book completely. I inhabit it like a second skin. <br/><br/>This boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7125470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38782080">
    <user id="1755710">
    <name><![CDATA[Caty]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Northampton, MA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 27 20:32:38 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 01 10:34:39 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Couldn't stand it, couldn't finish it. And I usually love radical utopias+ conservative dystopias--the 2 paired together? Whhooooo! But the style was turgid and thick and the sentimentality oozed off the page. Maybe my aesthetic problems with paganism helped, too. The description of the prison and t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38782080">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38782080]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="7778649">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dean]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cambridge, MA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[witches, people who care about consensus decisionmaking and water ]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 15 21:09:41 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 15 21:09:41 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[there are many things that others may find 'cheesy' that you have to read past in this book, and i think that race is dealt with in a really surface and problematic way, but i found it completely exciting to get to read a fictional depiction of a consensus-based non-hierarchical society rooted in fe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7778649">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="4527355">
    <user id="248160">
    <name><![CDATA[Jen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Hanford, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone!]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 21 08:18:10 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 14 07:56:42 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 14 08:07:12 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am reading this book for the third time. I identify with the main character, even though I thought she was a brat the first time through....; ) <br/><br/>Look--if you care about the Earth or your freedoms when it comes to clean water and  pure food, then read this book. It's a quick read because...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4527355">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4527355]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="17089578">
    <user id="962632">
    <name><![CDATA[Tammy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Gladstone, OR]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 05 11:12:08 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 05 11:24:43 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first introduction to &quot;ecofeminism.&quot;  Extremely close to the end of the book so I will reserve judgement on the ending, but I am extremely impressed with Starhawk's ability to draw me into her world and keep me there.  I felt attached to the characters and experienced so many emotions a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17089578">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9880085">
    <user id="642326">
    <name><![CDATA[Briana]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fort Collins, CO]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Dystopia lovers, people who love to frequently read about group sex]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 03 09:08:48 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 17 12:04:12 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far quite interesting.  Written by an eco-feminist, wiccan/pagan activist so, of course, there are alot of politics involved.  This is her first fictional novel. (Sounds like your type of book, doesn't it, Aaron? hahaha)<br/><br/>Centered in California, mid-21st century.  Regarding society's la...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9880085">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9880085]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="3683624">
    <user id="231071">
    <name><![CDATA[Lori]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[lovers of peace and goodness]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 27 20:11:34 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 17 10:13:49 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ever thought about tearing up the concrete and turning our streets into living gardens? <br/>How about having seven old women running things by dreaming answers from a retreat up on the hill by Stow Lake (at 8th ave in GG Park)? <br/>How about the prospect of running out of a little thing called w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3683624">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3683624]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="4624306">
    <user id="283249">
    <name><![CDATA[Reverend J. LeSchwes]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Minneapolis, MN]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[futurist leftists]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 15 23:00:21 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 15 23:06:53 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love me some feminist sci-fi, but the weakest part of this book is the sci-fi part.  Similar to Octavia Butler's &quot;Parable of the Sower&quot; this book would be mcuh better without the weird sci-fi/fantasy touches that seem fairly extraneous to the excellent characters, relationship arcs and s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4624306">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4624306]]></url>
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    <review id="4024368">
    <user id="245578">
    <name><![CDATA[Sapote3]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Boone, NC]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[crazed idealists]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 03 09:57:08 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 03 10:06:34 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I had a lot of politics in high school, and I also lived in Wiccantown, The Bible Belt, U.S.A. Therefore, this book resonated rather a lot with me. I still love utopias, and this book is very much a utopia: an idealistic nowhere, but a nowhere that's worth talking about. <br/><br/>Still, I have...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4024368">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14415283">
    <user id="809060">
    <name><![CDATA[Nitya]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 02 20:24:28 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 02 20:32:43 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe not the best writing, but this book made me think long and hard about planetary resources, our current squandering of them, and how things might be if we continue on. it takes place in 2050, and resources are few. Water is scarce and precious, oil even scarcer. In San Francisco, the people hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14415283">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14415283]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="72607498">
    <user id="2753894">
    <name><![CDATA[Cheri]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Warren, MI]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 26 19:37:20 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 26 19:38:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd hate to think that we, as a society, would let things get as bad as the Southlands are depicted.  And I'd love to think that some day we can all live in harmony like the people in the City.  The way the country/world is looking right now, I can actually see both scenerios playing...but I'll hold...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72607498">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72607498]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="75998701">
    <user id="55935">
    <name><![CDATA[Eden]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Oct 28 08:13:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story presents Starhawk's vision for harmonious communities whose existence and growth depend equally on intellect, spirit, play, personal responsibility and awareness of the unique talents of each individual combined with an intimate understanding of the interdependence of the human community ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75998701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45845467">
    <user id="945350">
    <name><![CDATA[*rob*]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Olympia, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 18 14:15:47 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 09 12:07:11 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 18 14:15:47 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a favorite book of a lot of friends and acquaintances, so i think my expectations were high.  the writing is pretty flat, which i was actually relieved to discover because it's a big book and so i gave myself permission to read quicker than i normally like to.  also, it reeks of liberal whit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45845467">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45845467]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="71063053">
    <user id="2135231">
    <name><![CDATA[Alline]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Rutledge, MO]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not one to like fantasy, or even &quot;utopian fiction.&quot; But this just took my breath away. Perhaps as a native of Northern California I am hard-wired to think of Southern California as a big fat mess, selfish and soul-less, and to view Northern California as Mother, Home, and where good th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71063053">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71063053]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="67461299">
    <user id="2629046">
    <name><![CDATA[Gelsey]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[El Cerrito, CA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Aug 14 23:04:00 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 20 22:39:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is by far one of my favorite books of all time. It's full of magic and witchcraft and healing. When I first read this book, I had a few amazing experiences with bees. I felt closer to nature, to the wonder of our planet to the cycles and seasons we experience within ourselves and the world arou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67461299">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52186007">
    <user id="2018213">
    <name><![CDATA[Ishki]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Garden City, ID]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Apr 10 08:37:30 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to google Starhawk so that might tell you how familiar I am with eco-feminism and all that.  I really didn't know what to expect when I started the book, but it sucked me in rather quickly.  The writing wasn't anything to rave about, and some of it seemed a little cheesy, but overall, the stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52186007">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52186007]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="56610456">
    <user id="953937">
    <name><![CDATA[Michele]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[West Jordan, UT]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, I couldn't have picked a better time to read this book.  <br/>While I've been feeling so helpless about Israel's attack on Gaza, it is good to remember that there are alternative ways of being in this world.  And that we really do have to envision what we want our world to look like in order t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41456405">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In time of war, this is an interesting book to reread. Why having a different response can change the outcome, even if it feels dangerous. Yes, this is &quot;future fiction&quot;; I mean, who can imagine Southern California invading Northern California for our water and forests??? But the concept of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41972943">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has some good passages about nonviolent resistance and about building a community.  If it could have set up those issues without depending on New Age-y &quot;science&quot; (e.g., manipulating ch'i, using intelligent crystals for computers that are programmed through advanced visualization ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15959183">more...</a>]]></body>
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