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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:21:59 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Having been born in the 80's and therefore having neither experienced the 80's (in any true sense not involving my little ponies) nor read this at the time it came out (thank God, since I was 10), by the time I read this it had been made into a movie (which I had not seen at the time) and had certai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19672438">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:19:37 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[While not every aspect of the story necessarily rings true, Perotta does a fantastic job of creating a secret world between Sarah and Todd, using the characters' own flaws to develop his story and build suspense.  Personally, I don't know that the sex-offender subplot did much for the story and I co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19670197">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:18:56 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I honestly could not believe this was on the Times' best books list.  The character development was downright poor, and the story is a simpering account of the crisis of a (my) generation that has been given such a vast array of grand opportunities which by the very fact of having been handed to us ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19669237">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10073.A_Long_Way_Down">A Long Way Down (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2929.Nick_Hornby">Nick Hornby</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:54:34 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The best thing about this book is that it plays on so many dichotomies to such amusing effect.  For starters, the subject is suicide, but the book is never very serious.  At heart, the story is about how people connect in the oddest of circumstances-- even when the connection is by the narrowest of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19668677">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:49:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I did enjoy reading this book, and I find it interesting that Lee is writing it as she remembers prep school, because it definitely comes from an adult perspective.  The great writing here really makes the book, which would really be nothing special without the wonderful descriptive language that cr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19667306">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:40:33 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite of the McEwan oeuvre.  I enjoy how the author (as always) gleans so much from a relatively simple story, but I didn't feel his connection with his characters here.  While I appreciate this exercise in restraint, there is a point at which restraint can result in a failure to meet pote...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19667929">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:32:01 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book is one of the best examples where good writing really makes the story work.  Because the whole book happens in one day, the flow and pace have to be perfect to acheive a seamless unfolding of the events; I don't think a lesser writer could have done what McEwan does here.  Here, the charac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19667354">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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