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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the most powerful books I have ever read.  The author has a very original style--her prose is vivid, beautiful, and frightening.  This is actually the book that kindled my interest in tarantulas and I love how she references Rainer Foelix's &quot;Biology of Spiders&quot; at the beginn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11958404">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Silk is a creepy character-driven horror novel that's been sitting on my to-read shelf for about a decade.  The characters are vividly drawn, and their downtrodden lives are not sugar-coated in any way.  The supernatural element in the book is so subtle that at first it's easy to believe that the ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20817960">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Silk</em> by Caitlin R. Kiernan is written out like a spiderweb, so many characters and so many things going on, that it's all so dizzying when you first read it. <br/><br/>It's a Lovecraftian-like story done perfectly. Caitlin R. Keirnan, you can tell, loves words and creates such a wildfire with them...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53495759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Silk&quot; is a strong, beautifully written effort, featuring one of the most realistic portrayals of the gothic subculture and the surrounding punk/metal/industrial/etc. subcultures--there are many overlaps, and the book understands this--that I've read in a novel. The characters, while not g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62591708">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <review id="20860544">
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite section:<br/><br/>&quot;The only part of the treasure left was a stone,&quot; and pause then, maybe a sort of challenge to Walter, but he'd been watching the windows again, his own blood in his hands.<br/><br/>&quot;A beautiful blue-gray stone full of God's most beautiful and terribl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20860544">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was morbidly fascinated by these dark, troubled characters and by their environment, which was equally gritty and broken down. Part of my interest in them (and in Spyder, in particular) was with trying to figure out if the things they were seeing were real, or just a product of their abuse-driven ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9868566">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An ambiguous ending that seemed unfinished enough to want &quot;End Of Book One&quot; tagged onto it. If I didn't know a sequel existed, I'd have been upset about it. Otherwise, it was well done. Strong overtones of Emma Bull's War for the Oaks in this.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite guilty pleasures.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The atmosphere of the novel was very well-written, and the characters, while being a bit &quot;central casting&quot; for a particular lifestyle, did seem real and believable.  But the ending felt a bit too jagged.  I have no problem with endings that aren't all sewn up, but something didn't quite ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20612778">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really loved the way the author described things, the way they tried to make them real. And of course, the huge use of &quot;strong boy arms&quot; or whatever instead of calling them men or guys. The story was a little confusing but the big point about wasted lives was very realistic and touching....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4401533">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Poorly written, with a barely coherent and hardly discernible plot.  Caitlin Kiernan throws together a group of misfit outsider characters who do nothing but drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and toss off the names of the cool bands to whom they listen.  In more capable hands, I'd probably like it.  I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39175996">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     I just may have re-read the prologue of this book more times than any other chunk of fiction. She totally had me for about the first half. Then she started losing me fast. I personally didn't like the ending, but that's okay. I'd still tell anyone into horror to give it a go. <br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's <em>Threshold</em> with a larger body count but more resolution, less goth and albino in the forefront, a heroin junkie instead of an alcoholic and way more guitar players. But oh, there was sexual abuse, too, and reading that always makes me feel like I need to vomit.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eh. The book was a gift. While I liked the way the author writes sentences, the plot was only so-so. And it's set in a world I know nothing about - goths &amp; punk rockers. Lots of drug use, which I also can't relate to.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Caitlin R. Kiernan's first novel and it is wonderfully raw, dark and twisted.  Like nothing else I have ever read. Add this one to your summer reading list and enjoy the blood-slicked slide into madness. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved the prose, liked the characters, felt too distanced by the story. Am starting the sort-of sequel next. I like her style so much I plan to read all her books.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A group of misfits congretate around Spyder, a mysterious and troubled woman with a terrifying past.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My good author. lyrical and creepy. bittersweet ending is perfect for this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[effectively creepy, stylishly goth.]]></body>
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