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  <read_at>Thu May 29 14:21:52 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fuck this book.<br/><br/>First of all, it's broken into three sections- the characters at 52, 28 and 17.  It goes backwards, which might work in some stories, but it's utterly annoying here.  You end up not knowing the characters at all.  Plus, it was like a wanna be Out of Africa.  I'm so annoyed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5859595">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was an ok read until the end...if everything from the car crash forward is invented by Thomas and not real after all, this is a sick delusion and not a love story. I felt cheated at the end. It is something like the time when Cheech and Chong released an otherwise empty record album, with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27362977">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to say that I found it difficult to not only get into this book, but to stay into it. I found myself skimming through pages because of the excessive and unnecessary descriptions of things/events/people that really had no impact on the story. It may be my nature as a scientist but the superflu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22665225">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anything Anita Shreve [Anita Shreve] has ever written has moved me.  I am thrown into the storyline because of her writing skills.  No other writer has ever been able to make me <em>see </em> what is being written.  I can picture each character, house, town, etc as though there are photos on the side.  There...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26991370">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You know, I've read other stuff by this author, and liked it. Liked it a lot. This is actually the fifth book if hers I've read.<br/><br/>Absolute dreck.<br/><br/>The characters are wooden and unbelievable, like something out of a Russian novel of the last century. They give undue weight to thei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18381457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  Lovely writing style, compelling story.  I like Linda, and Thomas is just plain yummy.  But the ending... oh, I have such mixed feelings about the ending! *sigh*<br/><br/>I thought the story started out a bit slow, but I gave it a chance, and it grew on me.  By the tim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54699831">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yet another Anita Shreve book where I absolutely love her writing, her incredible skill with words... but am not necessarily a fan of the all the actions of the characters. I hate the second to last sentence of this book. She is incredible but I hate that sentence and when you average out those two ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36129723">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&lt;--spoilers ahead--&gt;<br/><br/>This is a beautifully written and engaging book. I appreciated the uniqueness of the reverse chronology of the narrative. The unexpected ending was fairly brilliant storytelling, but I felt cheated. Not only for the obvious reason that Linda died in the car cras...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25146293">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm still not sure what I think of it. I guess it really depends on whose point of view Linda's life was seen from. If it was an omniscent third person, then the book is positivly the most romantic thing I've ever read, and my tears at the end were not in vain. *BUT*, if it was all conjecture on Tho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9241397">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this was read in a week where i read 3 books right in a row that were not bad per se, but not good either. that's about all i gotta say about this book. it's not good. and it's not bad. i would recommend reading it at the beach or something except that it's totally depressing. so don't read it at th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56859816">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book ended up being a big dull (never-ending, it seemed) dud.  I made it to page 172 in hopes that it would start to pick up and somehow get better, but it never did.  It is very hard for me to not finish a book that I started, but I finally decided it was for the best.  I kept wanting to read,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73821904">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Linda Fallon, accomplished poet, runs into her former lover and mentor Thomas Jane at a poetry reading event. Jane has engineered this meeting in an attempt to rekindle the passion they had previously. <br/><br/> <br/><br/>The book takes you back to them as teenagers and then again as young adul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73184681">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most beautifully written love stories EVER! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would really like to give this a 3 1/2 (too bad that halves are not an option.)  I have read other books by Shreve and loved them; this was a little more mixed.  It's a complex book, in some ways, and my reaction is also complex.  It is told in three parts, going backward in time.  <br/><br/>The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68431911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[... <br/><br/>I just finished this book and immediately texted my friend the last sentence... not because he'd care, but because I had to tell someone.  I don't know if I'm amazed or angry.  I don't know if it takes away from the story, or if it makes better.  Or if it just changes it so entirely ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54968233">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found it interesting that the author chose to write all dialogue in italics.  It felt like I was reading a dream, or a play being performed in whispers; very theatrical.  I couldn't see the purpose in the beginning.  <br/><br/>The story seems to start at the end and then works it's way through t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54658327">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first thoughts upon reading this, &quot;No...Not an author.  Nobody likes to read about characters who are authors...or the craft of writing...&quot; I know, I know, &quot;Write what you know&quot; - but writing about writing and reading about writing is terribly dull.  I was really scared that I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38739009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Let me first say that this is the 4th A. Shreve book that I've read (Resistance, Weight of Water &amp; Sea Glass were the others). I like the way she writes - the wording, structure, etc. - but she could use a little work. <br/><br/>For one thing, all the books that I've read involve adultery. Althoug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37606870">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thinking back on this book I still regret that I wasted the money on it. The Characters were..drab, and unbelievable. The writing was okay but the plot was stupid. It seemed like she was trying to pull an Ian McEwan at the end of Atonement, with the big reveal but it really didn't work (in fact it b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35762760">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anita Shreve is my favorite guilty pleasure writer, &amp; this is one of her more interesting efforts. I liked the structure of this book - telling the story from the end &amp; going back in time to the beginning. Not super original, but interesting &amp; fun. Linda &amp; Thomas meet originally in school -then agai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21143273">more...</a>]]></body>
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