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    <name><![CDATA[Meredith]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had wanted to read Middlesex for a long time and I finally requested it from PaperbackSwap.  I read about half of it and then took a long break - the beginning was full of other cultures and scandalous incest, but the middle sort of slowed down and was less interesting.  I just picked it up again while on vacation, and I powered through the second half - once the narrator was born, it got very interesting again, primarily because of his gender dysphoria as a child.  Jeffrey Eugenides must have done outstanding research on intersexuality to write this book - I'm really glad I finished the book.  I left it at a Starbucks in Seattle with a BookCrossing ID written inside.]]></body>
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