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  <title><![CDATA[The Bridges of Madison County]]></title>
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  <default_description>When Robert Kincaid drives through the heat and dust of an Iowa summer and turns into Francesca Johnson's farm lane looking for directions, the world-class photographer and the Iowa farm wife are joined in an experience of uncommon truth and stunning beauty that will haunt them forever. The romantic classic of the 1990's.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1992</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Bridges of Madison County</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert James Waller]]></name>
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    <review id="2330458">
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    <name><![CDATA[S.]]></name>
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      <rating>0</rating>
  <votes>27</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[No one/ Would be Fiction writers]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 24 11:57:24 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 29 07:35:21 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>The Book, cough, cough:</strong> Called a novel, it's more a novella, barely over 170 pages--the better to save money on printing costs--set in large type on small pages. Set between a frame story (utterly forgettable) employed to give the reader a sense of being privy to a real event, voyeurism at it's best...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2330458">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="9482407">
    <user id="454028">
    <name><![CDATA[Kate]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>20</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[fireplace owners]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 24 09:08:32 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Nov 24 11:37:29 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recipe for Bridges of Madison County Firestarters<br/><br/>1. melt 20 oz. parafin in 4 1/2 quart slow cooker set on low--should take about 20 minutes.<br/>2. set several sheets of newspaper on kitchen floor next to slow cooker.<br/>3. Tear pages out of binding--I find about seven at a time works...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9482407">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9482407]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="1495905">
    <user id="96524">
    <name><![CDATA[Gus]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>13</votes>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 28 12:04:13 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 01 11:51:36 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some may look askance at my 5-star rating. Behold, from the chapter &quot;The Highway and the Peregrine&quot;:<br/><br/>&quot;Robert, when we were making love last night, you said something that I still remember. I kept whispering to you about your power -- and, my God, you have that. You said, 'I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1495905">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1495905]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="14953958">
    <user id="882093">
    <name><![CDATA[Molly]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Pewee Valley, KY]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>8</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[absolutely no one]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[everyone including their aunt Sally]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Feb 08 19:32:38 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 08 19:39:29 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish that negative stars were allowed...this book deserves the Anti-Star.  I wanted to read this book because everyone I knew had read it and love it and wept over it.  &quot;The greatest love story of all time.&quot;  blah blah blah.<br/><br/>~~Spoiler Alert~~<br/><br/>I have a seri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14953958">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14953958]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="3535930">
    <user id="221256">
    <name><![CDATA[Belinda]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Jacksonville, AR]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>9</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[People who read &quot;People&quot; magazine religiously?]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 25 20:39:34 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 17 21:53:06 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[A friend sent me a copy a kajillion years ago, so I dutifully read it.  I still adore the friend, and have liked plenty of other books she recommended, but I was actually ANGRY with her for WEEKS for causing me to have read this book.  This was my all-time &quot;worst book I ever read (to the end)&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3535930">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="26607083">
    <user id="1079398">
    <name><![CDATA[Debbie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Powder Springs, GA]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>11</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[NO ONE]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 07 20:39:21 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 07 20:53:21 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If it were possible to rate a book in the negatives, this one would earn a negative 10. Truly one of the most terrible books ever. Maudlin, whiny and ridiculous. A woman whose husband and children are away has a brief affair with a photographer just passing through. Of course, the few days spent wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26607083">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26607083]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="10231569">
    <user id="180347">
    <name><![CDATA[Dolly]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/180347-dolly]]></url>
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>5</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[older folks who don't read much]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 10 13:53:31 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 10 14:03:31 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the introduction, the author spends a few paragraphs trying to suss out the difference between passionate and maudlin. Too bad he didn't come to a conclusion there. <br/><br/>The story is simple: disaffected woman who already thinks her husband is a bore (which begs one to wonder why the hell she...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10231569">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10231569]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="11397227">
    <user id="727695">
    <name><![CDATA[Sandy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Yakima, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>0</rating>
  <votes>5</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[no one]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 01 14:18:14 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 01 14:20:48 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is easily the worst book ever written, but that's exactly why I love it.  It's so appallingly, endearingly awful that the florid sappy phrases never fail to make me laugh until I cry.  'I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea.' You were right. That's what you fe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11397227">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11397227]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="1248699">
    <user id="86000">
    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Denver, CO]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/86000-david]]></url>
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>8</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Tony Snow]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 16 09:23:56 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 16 09:23:56 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[If I were a bridge, I would gather up an army of bridges from around the globe and arm them with all of the of R. J. Waller remainders we could find. I would then hook up with a willing metalsmith who would fashion sharp corners for every one of these books. No one deserves a Slow Waltz on Cedar Ben...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1248699">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1248699]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="17347099">
    <user id="896071">
    <name><![CDATA[Kayefex]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>6</votes>
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  <spoiler_flag>true</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 08 19:38:17 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 08 19:45:52 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story is kind of like Brokeback Mountain. In Brokeback Mountain, the fact that the story is a love story takes center stage and you almost forget you're reading about two men. It's just a story of a love that the two participants feel they can't have, and a life that they feel they can't share....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17347099">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17347099]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="1601124">
    <user id="84100">
    <name><![CDATA[Ryan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Long Beach, CA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/84100-ryan]]></url>
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      <rating>0</rating>
  <votes>6</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[those with head injuries]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 01 22:17:13 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 01 22:23:20 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a bestseller for 2 years when I first became a bookseller.  <br/><br/>It is no coincidence that I started to hate most people with a deep and abiding passion around that time as well.  Robert James Waller writes sex scenes that are so moronic you wonder if he's ever had it himself &amp; If so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1601124">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1601124]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="3075278">
    <user id="166376">
    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/166376-david]]></url>
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>4</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 14 12:04:19 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 23 18:50:01 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[The literary version of Thomas Kinkade.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3075278]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="16463345">
    <user id="945350">
    <name><![CDATA[*rob*]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Olympia, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Feb 26 17:01:10 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 01 23:36:33 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[this book was dreadful.  a saccharined promotion of the fairy-tale love myth, the cinderella complex.  yep, true love exists and it is great, but your life is far from empty without it.  the character's life, her real day-to-day existence and participation in this world, halts with the removal of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16463345">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16463345]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="297841">
    <user id="28445">
    <name><![CDATA[Caleb]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Singapore]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/28445-caleb-liu]]></url>
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 16 23:23:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 18 04:33:08 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was phenomenally popular which pricked my interest. Many people have described Waller's prose as poetic - I found it rather repetetive and wooden. An attempt at the sparseness of Hemingway gone rather wrong. As for the story, the appeal probably lies in all the idea of middle aged passion, love c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/297841">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/297841]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="29095861">
    <user id="1377720">
    <name><![CDATA[Debi]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Clinton, MA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1377720-debi-edwards]]></url>
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>4</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Sat Aug 02 20:56:07 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 02 20:59:52 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I learned from this book is that no matter how hard you throw a paperback, it will rarely dent the wall. Which is a good thing, because I threw this one more than once, as I was stubbornly determined to finish it despite my hatred of its flowery overblown writing, its misplaced glorification of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29095861">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29095861]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="26073718">
    <user id="810875">
    <name><![CDATA[Keith]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Moorhead, MN]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/810875-keith]]></url>
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>4</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 01 19:48:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 01 19:51:11 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[The best line I ever saw concerning this book is from a reviewer of the Clint Eastwood movie of it, something about how amazing it was that Eastwood could made a silk purse out of such a sow's ear of a book.  I thought that pretty much summed it up.  The only thing I learned from this book is that t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26073718">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26073718]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="28184347">
    <user id="1135405">
    <name><![CDATA[Karen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Leominster, MA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1135405-karen-rowland]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>4</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 24 13:22:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 24 13:26:03 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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  <date_updated>Fri Sep 14 23:04:30 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood was <em>way</em> too old to play Kincaid!  The book's Kincaid was super hot, but Eastwood's Kincaid had a wrinkly old body.  Remember the scene where he asks to clean off with her hose and she watches through the window and feels lust for the first time in ages? Well, Clint's wrinkly, paunch-b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2693976">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 31 16:18:41 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 31 16:27:10 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some dialogue from this mushy crap bookclub hit:<br/><br/>&quot;his eyes looked directly at her, and she felt something jump inside.&quot;<br/>or...<br/>He (male lead character) reminds her (female lead character) of a &quot;gazelle,&quot; or, better yet, &quot;some star creature who had drafted...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3871723">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 27 01:23:24 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 27 01:34:12 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always felt that this was one of those books written for women who are menapausal and in a marriage that dried up and need to hold on to a fantasy that they don't need to actually do anything in order to make their life better - it will just happen. It will just drive up to their house and hump th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44490032">more...</a>]]></body>
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