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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1985</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quite possibly the best novel ever written about domestic terrorism and spontaneous human combustion.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this at least 15 years ago, so my memories are vague.  It made a great impression on me (and seeing Catherine's addition of Lowboy is what made me think of it) and it made me go on an MSB kick.  A wonderful writer - and one of the best things about his early work is that you get an fascinatin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60165969">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Four men conspire to detonate a nuclear device under Times Square. Cases of spontaneous combustion increase in number. One man, half-crazy and seemingly detached from the world, befriends an abused, tortured young boy.<br/><br/>It's hard for me to say what I got out of this novel; I didn't even se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2784581">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Apt title for a book set in 1982 NYC. Beautiful line I still remember about a glass bottle being thrown and shattering on the rail of a Circle Line tourist ferry: It wasn't an act of vandalism, it was just the Devil saying hello.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[do not read this book if you already feel uneasy riding subways and living in the city. i read it before planes started flying into buildings. it will drag out any hidden paranoia you've been secretly harboring. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great writer]]></body>
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