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          <body><![CDATA[I really liked the beginning and middle, but like many novels, it started to drag towards the end.  I lost interest and didn't complete the book.  However, the writing is so excellent, I'll no doubt return to finish the novel and re-assess it.  ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:58:51 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[So far, I'm absolutely entranced.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:54:58 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I love DeLillo's sensibility, perceptions/insights, imagination and brilliant phrasings. I'm savoring this book. It's knocking me over.]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[As I said, I'm inclining more towards his less popular novel Cosmopolis.  But then, there are others!]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 28 May 2009 08:10:47 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[T.C. Boyle. Writer of American &quot;realism.&quot;]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[Wonderful writer. Particularly impressed with &quot;A Literary Adventure,&quot; &quot;Maricio Silva,&quot; and &quot;Days of 1978.&quot;]]></body>
        
    
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