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    <updated_at>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:43:19 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:42:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Dickensian - that's the only word for it. It just gets better and better.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/475.Collapse_How_Societies_Choose_to_Fail_or_Succeed">Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/256.Jared_Diamond">Jared Diamond</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:20:35 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Once again, a warning.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1842.Guns_Germs_and_Steel">Guns, Germs, and Steel (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/256.Jared_Diamond">Jared Diamond</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:19:28 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Thoughtful survey of why western culture was ascendant for so long. Mirrors Barzun's survey of its decline.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1609448.Hello_I_Must_Be_Going_Groucho_and_His_Friends">Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9428.Charlotte_Chandler">Charlotte Chandler</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:04:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[As an informal biography, this one's pretty good. A fascinating insight to the mind of a comedic genius and the world which he both inhabited and created. The only problem is, as one of his friends observed, when you spend a lot of time with Groucho, you begin to talk like him. That can be a bit awk...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29410313">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58233.From_Dawn_to_Decadence_500_Years_of_Western_Cultural_Life_1500_to_the_Present">From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16173.Jacques_Barzun">Jacques Barzun</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:28:49 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[  Frankly, having read this work, I'm a bit embarassed to be writing a review. In as much as the whole narrative leads one to an inescapable feeling of living in a totally fragmented, de-contextualized, and (to use the author's word) decadent, society; it seems rather self-indulgent to commit these ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25111774">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:22:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[An impressive survey of the revolution, its players, causes, and results. Really comprehensive and eye-opening.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:48:07 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Skilfully plotted and beautifully written. A love transcending time and place . . . but not exactly a romance. I wish she'd write more.]]></body>
        
    
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