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  <title><![CDATA[The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel (John MacRae Books)]]></title>
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  <default_description>George V. Higgins's first novel is like a blast of Atlantic air; the Boston prosecutor virtually reinvents the language of the crime novel with his unique ability to breathe life into the dialogue of the smalltime hoodlum and hustler. Trying to pull off one final score, career crook Eddie Coyle finds himself squeezed out of shape by the people above and below him. The explosive conclusion is inevitable yet fascinating.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1972</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Friends of Eddie Coyle</original_title>
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  <average_rating><![CDATA[4.15]]></average_rating>
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      <name><![CDATA[George V. Higgins]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 12 20:18:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 15 09:27:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA['Friends' was Higgins' first novel (1972) and it set the standard for all the books about the criminal underworld that exists in most of our major cities.  In this case, the city  is Boston; if you're familiar with the area, you'll that his sense of place is astonishing.  When he travels along the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55883104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56485413">
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    <name><![CDATA[Tony]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Sylva, NC]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon May 18 09:42:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 20 08:10:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an awesome classic that Elmore Leonard copied his style directly from.  I'm going so far to say that if Higgins hadn't written this one and Leonard hadn't read it, we probably would be denied a greater body of work in the crime fiction genre.  THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE is awesome, not for i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56485413">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12953229">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New Haven, CT]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 20 06:30:51 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 18 09:40:14 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just started this book yesterday. I can see finishing by the end of the work week ez. In the intro EL (elmore leonard) mentions that he himself has been referred to as the &quot;Dickens of Detroit&quot; while Higgins was the &quot;Balzac of Boston.&quot; Pretty snappy dialogue and a gun runner by ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12953229">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 10 19:34:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 10 19:35:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What more needs to be said than Higgins was Elmore Leonard's model for crime fiction? Eddie Coyle is a weary career criminal looking for a way out so he can live out the rest of his (very modest) life in peace. Not so fast, Eddie. Not surprisingly, the way out involves being an informant. In 180+ pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70792917">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75428933">
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    <name><![CDATA[Robert]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Philadelphia, PA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 22 17:50:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 22 17:53:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the few times I can say that the book is inferior to the film. As a dramatization of small time crooks in the early 1970's, the book is fantastic, but its minimalist structure makes for an occasionally muddled plot (something that the screen version somehow avoided even though it doesn't devi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75428933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63616395">
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    <name><![CDATA[Exile]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Edmond, OK]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 15 12:38:52 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 15 14:23:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I also read this b/c of Elmore Leonard.  Not really a detective novel, but a crime novel.  And don't think &quot;caper&quot; either.  It is more of a wide-angle snapshot of crime and criminals around Boston in the early 1970s.  Yes, there was a lot of foul language, but the dialogue is crisp, but no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63616395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67237986">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Irvine, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 13 09:11:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Crime! Criminals! Tough talk! Women as accessories! It's just like TV! Wait, is that a good thing? Well, no, but the eradication of exposition is, and there are a few good verbs in here. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67237986]]></url>
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    <review id="54608280">
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    <name><![CDATA[John]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Fans of Elmore Leonard]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 01 12:07:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 01 12:10:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>10?</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[The book that taught Elmore Leonard how to write about gangsters. IMFO.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54608280]]></url>
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    <review id="49289259">
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Life is hard, but it's a lot harder when your're fuckin' stupid.&quot; ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book. It's amazing how well it holds up from 1971 given the vast changes in cash value in technology. Four pages in and it was obvious how hugely influential this book has been, even though I never considered reading it before and was only vaguely aware of the Robert Mitchum version ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61671461">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62640924">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sam]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 08 11:02:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 08 11:03:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid.&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="51746785">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kim]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1979</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[really atmospheric - well drawn characters]]></body>
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    <review id="40402294">
    <user id="1177500">
    <name><![CDATA[Scott]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lewisville, TX]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 18 14:12:12 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A day after reading, &quot;The Friends&quot; is sitting with me a bit better. While reading I found myself wondering why this book has always been given high praise. It doesn't live up to the hype, but it's pretty good. Coyle tries to balance the fence between selling guns and staying in good with t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40402294">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54198369">
    <user id="2235586">
    <name><![CDATA[Rick]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Torrington, CT]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Apr 27 20:10:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 27 20:13:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book. Great pulp fiction from the seventies. Small time Boston hood(Lauren you might like this)last job before he retires. This book should be taught in every creative writing workshop to show how you write dialogue. I've lost my copy, I may have to buy it again. The movie with Rober...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54198369">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41305492">
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    <name><![CDATA[Rossbrew]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A relatively short but hugely impacting novel set amongst Boston cops and criminals with blistering and creative dialogue the order of the day- looking forward to the upcoming Criterion dvd release of the underrated and underseen film version starring Robert Mitchum.]]></body>
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    <review id="34434430">
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    <name><![CDATA[Rob]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[People who like crime mysteries]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reminded me a little of Cormac McCarthy's &quot;No Country.&quot; Great writing style, good dialog, page-turner plot. Apparently there was a movie made in the 70s that didn't do so well, but it reads like a script...maybe they'll remake it some day.]]></body>
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    <review id="27989221">
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely fantastic 70s crime fiction.  This slim book is a nasty, violent, dirty little rattlesnake.  In Elmore Leonard's introduction he writes, &quot; 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' makes 'The Maltese Falcon' read like a Nancy Drew mystery.&quot;  Well put.]]></body>
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    <review id="9493362">
    <user id="589019">
    <name><![CDATA[Paul]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sat Nov 24 15:31:43 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Higgins in top form; crisp, Hemingway-esque depiction of the criminal sub-culture; much better than operatic depictions of that world in, say, &quot;The Departed,'' tho it was made into a not bad B-movie itself with Mitchum]]></body>
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    <review id="3189145">
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