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  <title><![CDATA[The Half-Life: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;When Cookie Figowitz, the cook for a party of volatile fur trappers trekking through the Oregon Territory in the 1820s, joins up with the refugee Henry Brown, the two begin a wild ride that takes them from the virgin territory of the West all the way to China and back again. One hundred and sixty years later, Tina Plank, an unhappy teenager, meets Trixie, a girl with a troubled past, and the two become fast friends. But when two skeletons are accidentally unearthed from their common ground, the lives of Tina and Trixie, Cookie and Henry are brought together in unexpected and startling ways.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2004</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jonathan Raymond]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I slogged through this, forgetting how much better a book could be until I started the next one. There are two parallel stories, both set in the same landscape near Portland, Oregon, one during the frontier period in the mid-nineteenth century, the other on a commnity of aging hippies in the 1980s. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66888081">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whenever I'm not quite sure how to rate a book, I usually round up.  This book gets an extra star because I like the depiction of unique relationships.  &quot;If I could attach my flesh to your own so we could become each other, I would  . . .  It took a long time for me to recognize you for who you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46632942">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just couldn't put this down. I wanted closure! The author takes you on two long and winding journeys, each in its own century. Although you think you know what will happen at the end, you really don't know. Exquisite, almost agonzing descriptions of every little detail throughout, but the language...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57945810">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two stories taking place in Portland, OR are intertwined…one is the story of Cookie and Henry, trappers in the Oregon Territory in the 1800’s.  The other is the story of Tina and Trixie, teenage girls living in a commune and trying to find meaning in life.   Both stories focus on friendship.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully written. This is an engaging, &quot;epic&quot; novel with Portland, OR as a primary backdrop - both in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was written by a high school classmate and I'm thrilled for him that he's found such a tremendous way to share his artistic gift.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is meticulously historically researched. The telling of two events in the Oregon Territory, separated by over 170 years, reveals surprising human relationships. An excellent read!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has two stories that are unfolding simoultaneously (where is spellcheck, again?) one now with two teenage girls as the main characters,  the other a man named Cookie, and his journey out to Oregon, and than to distant shore.  There stories somehow overlap, and really its wonderful, and sup...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28755613">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2490134">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best books about Oregon I know.  From the guy that wrote the screenplay for that &quot;Old Joy&quot; movie.  He's interested in PNW homoeroticism among straight men - brilliant!  Also, just good writing sez I.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful book.  Seb read it after me and couldn't stop resding this either.  A lot of history of the Pacific Northwest &amp; China - very interesting and lovely.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[jon raymond kicks all the ass! and delves into the poignant, muddy history and recent past of Oregon culture. lovely stuff. ]]></body>
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