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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:53:38 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Series of touching short stories about Nigerians, here and there.  Well written, thoughtful, informative of the culture.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:15:04 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Really, really good history of the Bacardi family and their struggles to 1) make rum a worldwide beverage and 2) to deal with the socialization of companies under the Castro regime.  While I really enjoyed it, I believe that Gjelten tried to both present a history of rum and its primo family and at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79684199">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:44:43 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:12:33 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Hmmm, interesting, highly recommended by a friend.  With your strong negatives, I'll try...someday....maybe...]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:42:01 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:50:13 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It grew on me as I read this book about two wildly eccentric brothers over decades of their lives.  Narrated by the saner of the two, Homer describes his physical limitations and his brother's mental foibles.  His narratives are amusing but taking all into account, sad.  Ultimately they are successf...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78941630">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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