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    <updated_at>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:09:27 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[When I read many good writers I find myself thinking what a noble pursuit great writing is. Then when I read the likes of Toni Morrison I find myself thinking that it's best to leave the job to the talented. Dan Brown, couldn't you have read Toni Morrison at one point in your life and come to the sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81840793">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:01:30 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I generally avoid the religion section of the bookstore, not for lack of interest but because of a general fear of accidentally picking something up that basically wants to preach one way or another. In that sense, it's not a lot different than the political aisle. Some years ago I stumbled into the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76618386">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:12:13 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Like many of my generation, I'm all too familiar with Berlin's role as the center of all geopolitical conflict in the 20th Century, but a little fuzzy on details prior to the first World War. This book provided me a nice look into the world of Bismarck and the Kaisers Wilhelm and thus helps give me ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75877209">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:23:47 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book offers pretty much everything you want in a walking tour of a city (history and architecture, anecdotes and themes), apart from the thousand photographs you wish were in here. But mainly it's an analysis of issues of memory and politics and the German psyche in general, and how it affects ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73167491">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:56:47 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[For anyone with any interest in reading &quot;On the Origin of Species&quot;, this is a great way to read it. Costa's notes increase the length of the already-pretty-long &quot;abstract&quot; by at least 50 percent, but I found myself reading just about every annotation, often with more interest tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71317013">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1113049.Sex_Sleep_Eat_Drink_Dream_A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Your_Body">Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/161774.Jennifer_Ackerman">Jennifer Ackerman</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:43:47 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Last night, I ate too much, drank too much beer, and fell asleep too early. So I woke up at about three in the morning, feeling overheated, awake, and generally uncomfortable. I grabbed a nice tall glass of water, and pulled out this book to re-read this passage: &quot;So-called diet-induced thermog...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60009127">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1787954.The_game_that_was_An_illustrated_account_of_the_tumultuous_early_days_of_pro_football">The game that was;: An illustrated account of the tumultuous early days of pro football (Unknown Binding)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/789369.Myron_Cope">Myron Cope</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:47:00 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is no scripted history of early pro football. Rather, it's a loosely edited collection of old-man reminiscences.  So consequently, there's a lot of historical detail that's missing, and what is written is far from linear. But much like grandpa's musings, there's a lot to be gained from the stre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58146317">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315425.In_Defense_of_Food_An_Eater_s_Manifesto">In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2121.Michael_Pollan">Michael Pollan</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 27 May 2009 23:37:05 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A really, really interesting book about diet, it's basically a polemic against the &quot;food-marketing machine&quot;, processed food, and pretty much everything else about the post-industrial Western diet. Pollan has the added advantage of being not only very well read in terms of the science (at l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57585730">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/695429.G_del_s_Proof">Gödel's Proof (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/34436.Ernest_Nagel">Ernest Nagel</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 25 May 2009 17:21:27 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I don't read much math these days, so when I do read it, it's a little like climbing a steep wall following a winter of sitting in front of a computer. You discover a lot of soreness in muscles you scarcely remember you ever had in the first place.<br/><br/>The long and the short of it is that onc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57295126">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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