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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of people seem to like this book, but I think they're just trying to be nice to Steve Martin. He will be okay. He is good at a lot of other things. Michele doesn't like this book either. I think the word she used to describe it was &quot;vapid.&quot; I read this book so long ago that I don't r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3223346">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OH, what an utterly FASCINATING look into the totally important and equally fascinating stereotypes regarding heterosexual sexual relationships. Everyone in this book could have died in a fire, and I wouldn't have cared.  The girl, I hate her. I refuse to believe this girl is smart, everything she d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12437447">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A haunting tale...in that I am still haunted by Martin's borderline misogynistic caricatures of women (and what he thinks we do in public restrooms (page 101)). He writes like a child who got a thesaurus for Christmas but has never read a great book, or been allowed to use the f-word, or met a woman...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3417179">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I picked up Shopgirl at the Strand for $4.95. I had heard of it vaguely as the movie with Steven Martin in it as an adaptation of the book Steve Martin wrote. I purchased it as a book that I could take with me on vacation and have it be ultimately disposable. Sometimes this trick backfires on me as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6901897">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Steve Martin is surprisingly adept at prose. A master of the comedic genre, Mr. Martin manages without pretentiousness to imbue the story of a slightly imbalanced shopgirl, Mirabelle, a veritable everyday girl with little to do of anything, with a mirth and understanding that undercuts all of his ce...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42845806">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this before I had even heard this was going to be a movie - which is great because I was able to read it without picturing Claire Danes as Mirabella. (I thought she did a very good job in the movie - I just like reading a book and making up my own vision of the characters.)<br/>It's a simple...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38602499">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book out of curiosity because I'd always wondered what kind of writer Steve Martin is.  (I mean, I'd used his quote &quot;I think I did pretty well, considering all I started out with was a bunch of blank paper&quot; for YEARS in writing classes, at the tops of syllabi, etc. I could at l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21980347">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a surprise to me, loaned for on-the-plane reading after I'd finished the book I'd brought on the trip.<br/><br/>I had low expectations of the writing and the story.  Both were pleasant surprises.  Written in almost elegant prose, the characters in their small lives unfold.  Vignettes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19739924">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Steve Martin. &lt;---This was how I was going to begin this review. Cushioning the harsh criticism with true admiration. Before I continued ...after that first line I decided I was much too harsh and I went into other goodreads reviews of this book to see how close my opinion was with the gen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3075677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;She knows that she needs new friends but introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness.&quot; p.4<br/><br/>&quot;However, Jeremy does have one outstanding quality. He likes her. And this quality in a person makes them infinitely interesting to the person being liked.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1726964">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I re-read this during the snowstorm and liked it almost as much as the first time. I have not seen the movie, because it can't be as good as the book. I have not written down any favorite quotes, because I would have basically been transcribing the book. The novella is short and the story is quiet, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18385596">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Main theme I gathered from this book is that &quot;pain changes our lives.&quot;  or is what makes us grow.<br/><br/>When I first started this book, I was like &quot;oh, brother.&quot;  But I kept reading because a friend recommended it to me and I trust his opinion on things.  I ended up really e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21799923">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are a handful of writers I've come across who've successfully broken the &quot;show, don't tell&quot; rule every writer is taught. Kurt Vonnegut was one, and Steve Martin is another. It'd be hard to imagine Vonnegut in &quot;Breakfast of Champions,&quot; for example, giving the reader all the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19716090">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know why, but I almost want to perceive the story of the relationship of Mirabelle and Ray Porter as the author's parable of all relationships between older men and younger women.  <br/><br/>A shy young woman toils in relative obscurity, unseen and unappreciated by her contemporaries (men ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18495225">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bored, I checked this out of the library one day, and I have to say, I found it surprisingly affecting.  It's easy to sneer at Steve Martin for being a lit-pretender, but this wasn't a pretentious book in the least.  It's a melancholy (not depressive), wise, and well-drawn portrait of a young woman ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16066215">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Almost everything about this book works surprisingly well. The tone and style of the narration brings the reader very effectively into the life of Mirabelle, a girl who is lonely and longing to connect with other people. She doesn't get the opportunity to do so very often since she is both shy and e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13341163">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/> Have you ever really, REALLY wanted to read something, serasrch ALL over for it, finally found it, and then were so genuinely disapointed by it you could almost cry?? THAT is how I feel after reading &quot;Shopgirl&quot;.<br/><br/> I saw the movie (with Steve Martin, Claire Danes and Jason ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12612030">more...</a>]]></body>
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