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    <updated_at>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:22:29 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I picked this book up a week ago, just after seeing a northerly section of the Hudson - near Saratoga Springs and the Saratoga battlefield in upstate New York - and hoping that the book would offer a decent history of the river. Lewis certainly fulfills that hope, writing a wonderful overview of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63923039">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:49:59 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book is hard to review in that it's exactly what the jacket copy and other online reviews suggest: a cogent, informative, well-written narrative about London's 1854 cholera epidemic, which was caused by the giant city's pathetic sanitation system and ended when a brilliant scientist, John Snow,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61096421">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:10:31 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is an excellent overview of the science and biology of seeing, especially as related to modern art. The author, Margaret Livingstone, a neurobiologist, skillfully presents the scientific material, though some of it is nonetheless pretty tough going. Livingstone, is very good at using a wide ran...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60477894">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:06:50 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is a mind-bending book that blends excellent history of science with excellent history of art. The core of the book is examination of the origins and early use in visual art of optical perspective, the technique for creating the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60356294">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:11:43 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I wound up really liking <u>A Man in Full</u>, against my better judgment. I'd read <u>Bonfire of the Vanities</u> years ago, and enjoyed that, but had not read more than a few of Wolfe's essays since. Here, Wolfe's politics color the whole story, but what a story - a sort of neo-Dickensian tale of real estate ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38130311">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:16:23 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I loved this book. It's stuck with me a looong time.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3985.The_Amazing_Adventures_of_Kavalier_Clay">The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2715.Michael_Chabon">Michael Chabon</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:15:54 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Excellent book.]]></body>
        
    
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