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    <updated_at>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:33:40 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:31:53 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Choose your traps.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/438100.The_Unknown_Terrorist_A_Novel">The Unknown Terrorist: A Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8864.Richard_Flanagan">Richard Flanagan</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:43:26 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A page turner in the end, but not the revelatory vision of a post-9/11 West that so many reviewers seemed to see. Too often went in for cheap cynicism and never really escaped the narrator's condescension toward the main character.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:57:36 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[great fun. The plot meandered too much, and I don't know that the tone really matched the subject matter (especially toward the end where things get kinda dark), but page for page, a joy to read]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29641.The_End_of_the_Affair">The End of the Affair (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2533.Graham_Greene">Graham Greene</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:59:10 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Couldn't get into his turn toward the mystical, and I'm not generally opposed to turns toward the mystical. But Greene just keeps setting up these &quot;miracles&quot; and then leaves his narrator prematurely confounded by them. Still, the love affair part was well done, and the snippets of life in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Couldn't%20get%20into%20his%20turn%20toward%20the%20mystical,%20and%20I'm%20not%20generally%20opposed%20to%20turns%20toward%20the%20mystical.%20But%20Greene%20just%20keeps%20setting%20up%20these%20%22miracles%22%20and%20then%20leaves%20his%20narrator%20prematurely%20confounded%20by%20them.%20Still,%20the%20love%20affair%20part%20was%20well%20done,%20and%20the%20snippets%20of%20life%20in%20London%20during%20the%20war%20made%20it%20worthwhile.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:19:35 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:19:33 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:19:25 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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