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    <![CDATA[The Motel Life: A Novel]]>
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  <body>Call me simple, but I love reading a book that has small drawings at the beginning of each chapter.</body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't help hearing most people's voices in this book sounding like Moe's voice on The Simpsons. Moe is my fave Simpson character, so maybe that partially explains my love for this beautiful, sad fucking book. The other part of the explanation is just that it's a pretty special book. I was afrai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71381254">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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