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    <name><![CDATA[Mallory]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Mar 01 12:32:18 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 01 12:34:06 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a good first novel but it has very weak points.  The characters have moments of being real, but also long periods of being completely one-dimensional.  We get it - one girl is fat, one is thin - but despite their physical differences they connect.<br/><br/>The Ayn Rand stuff didn't do much for me, but I thought Justine's journey was interesting enough to make it through the story.  If you want to watch a good writer develop into a great writer, read this along with some of Gaitskill's later works.  But on its own, this book is just good, not great.]]></body>
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