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    <body><![CDATA[This book has stuck with me since I first read it ten years ago in an American Literature college course. It's a book that, stylistically, probably deserves four stars; there are some awkward jolts in the momentum of the story. But I can't bring myself to lower my perfect rating. I get so attached t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45633178">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was not overly impressed by this book. It was decent at best. I feel that there was good characterization and it was overall believable. It was refreshing to read a book set in Kentucky, that kinda hit home. <br/><br/>I guess, in all honesty, my biggest issue with this book was all the M*A*S*H r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53045321">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not sure why, but this is my first Bobbie Ann Mason; won't be my last. <em>In Country</em> may not be perfectly crafted (I could see how one might have a few complaints, like about an incident in the last scene). But I don't have those complaints--really, I'd be hard pressed to criticize anything--maybe beca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44350017">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i wish i had grabbed a different book off the bookshelf at the american club. this was a disappointing read for a Flannery O'Connor lover. so bleak and shallow and down country depressing. the protagonist was annoying and naive and probably pretty spot-on as a true-life character. not a book worth h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47601389">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first 3/4 of the book barely rated two stars.  I felt that it was not well written and frankly - boring.  I stuck with it because it is the book that all incoming freshmen at the Mount are required to read. (And I still wonder why.)  It somewhat redeemed itself in the last pages of the book as i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64502569">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book makes an interesting commentary on the lives of Vietnam veterans and their indefinite place in society, but I found that the pace of the book was too slow for my taste. Sam's initial resolve to find out about her father is lost amidst quips about Agent Orange and other parts of a plot that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56082631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A coming of age story in which a teenage girl takes on the burden of her uncle, a Vietnam vet with PTSD in an attempt to reconcile the loss of a father whom she never met because he was killed in Vietnam.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't crazy about this book... I got irritated with the writing style towards the end (I guess it was supposed to be stream of consciousness? Which I hate anyway) What really saved this book was the fact that Bobbie Ann Mason is the only famous WESTERN Kentucky author I can name and I happen to l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25182669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would hope that very young teenagers would not read this book.  Sam, the main character is a recent high school graduate exploring her heritage.  Her father died in Viet Nam before she was born.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My senior year high school English teacher assigned this book, which has several parts about sex and smoking pot.  She was a very prim and proper woman, so I was pretty blown away.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Country was a book that by the end I could not decide how i felt about it. In one perspective I found it really interesting and entertainingly informational. The book is really about a teenage girl coming to terms with things in her life with the constant comparism of the way things were during t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28246329">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't like the book. I think it's a bit shallow and I find myself so lackadaisical in finishing it. In fact I skipped a few chapters just to finish the book. I don't think i will read the book again.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first book I read that focused on the Vietnam war, as opposed to WWII. I sympathized with the main character, and overall thought it was a good story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book.  Should be taught as part of a high school American lit program.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know. It was a good read. Quick, clear, entertaining. But sometimes a little annoying. How do we relate to a selfish girlchild as protagonist? Oh. Waitaminute...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to admit, I was a little disappointed in this book.  I love Bobbie Ann Mason, and &quot;Shiloh&quot; is one of my favorite short stories of all time. In addition, I was seriously considering assigning this novel as a companion piece to Homer's _Odyssey_ in the fall.  But . . . the story seems...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23623119">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sam and her Uncle Emmett live together because her father was killed in Vietnam and her mother has married a new man and moved to a town a few hours away.  The setting is Kentucky 1984.  Sam, 18, is on a quest to discover her identity, starting with understanding who her father was.   She faces life...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12249751">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about a girl who's father was killed in Vietnam. It deals with her struggle to come to terms with life after the war as well as her entire town's struggles. i just plain didn't like it. I was bored. I didn't like the charaters or feel any connection to them, thus I really didn't care wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71056139">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been meaning to read this book for a long time...ever since I saw the film in 1989 with my dad, a Vietnam Vet.  The prose works on a level of heartbreak and loss that is rare in most books.  The thoughts of Sam, the main character, are so random and detailed and weird, they ring true.  I though...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9516923">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing read...even though it was required for school, imagine that:)  A personal glimpse into both the private and public repurcussions of an unpopular war.  Although this book was written about events surrounding the Vietnam war everyone in this country could obviously learn from it's message toda...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16028616">more...</a>]]></body>
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