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    <updated_at>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:13:55 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:02:26 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:59:34 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I don't even program in Java, yet this book is put together so well that I would think any programmer getting his feet wet in the world of patterns would learn something from reading this book regardless of language. A must read for the growing programmer.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:07:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[An incredibly hard read. One you have to really comprehend as you read, which really slows down the pace when you have 1000+ pages. Changed my outlook on life. I was recommended this book as a teenager and regret not reading it then.<br/><br/>That capitalism isn't dirty, it is todays exploitation of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20861263">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:01:32 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I originally purchased this book to learn more about Gregory Perelman and the fields medal he turned down, but over the course of the book you get such a detailed explanation of the history of math, that I spent just as much time in wikipedia as I did reading this book. Fantastic read, for every typ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20861229">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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