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    <body><![CDATA[Haven't read Pic in a while but I loved this novel.  A modern day Faulknerian-style southern gothic.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Really well done until the disappointing ending.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a bad read, but definately not deserving of the rave reviews it received from nearly everyone in the horror community. Then again, this isn't the first time Piccirilli has left me scratching my head, wondering what it was I just read. He had a story in the first issue of Red Scream that I didn't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27343969">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really odd book. I didn't really care for it, but I read it anyways. Wasn't bad enough to put down.  It was choppy, had too much sex, and just bizarre. I like bizarre books, but this was bizarre for me.  I'm not sure it was horror either. It was strange but does that make a book horror? I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30097057">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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