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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51299.Letter_to_a_Christian_Nation">Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16593.Sam_Harris">Sam Harris</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:19:21 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[My regligious friends will no doubt be offended by this book, for which I apologize.   But I think it is important to explore all sides.  So just as I read the bible (or large portions of it) and Mere Christianity, I also read this.<br/><br/>The author makes a compelling, if somewhat brash, argume...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76063807">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:22:15 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:21:31 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Not sure what to make of this book.  An old man writes a note of rememberances to his young son, a boy practically absent from the book, he is so thinly developed.  Not much really happens.  But the writing is so deeply spiritual that it is a work of beauty.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63657.In_the_Country_of_Men">In the Country of Men (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/35807.Hisham_Matar">Hisham Matar</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:06:31 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A strange tale, reminiscent of &quot;The Stranger&quot;.  It is the story of a young boy who grows up shortly after the revolution in Libya.  His parents are involved in politics, which inevitably involve him.  I found the story a bit implausible.  The main character was deeply flawed for a child, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68805576">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23577.Lies_and_the_Lying_Liars_Who_Tell_Them_A_Fair_and_Balanced_Look_at_the_Right">Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13311.Al_Franken">Al Franken</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:26:53 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[OK, so I am a little late to read this one. It has been sitting on my shelf for years, and I finally got to it.   <br/><br/>It actually was better to read in the post-W era.  Now I can laugh and not cry when I read it.  And I laughed a lot.  I laughed out loud. I laughed on the bus.  I laughed wal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67006782">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3805.The_Corrections">The Corrections (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2578.Jonathan_Franzen">Jonathan Franzen</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:52:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This was an ejoyable book, but troubling.<br/><br/>It seemed to start off as a comedy.  Reminscent of &quot;Running with Scissors&quot; for its tale of a disfuntional family.   But as their troubles became more and more serious, somehow it crossed the line from comedy to tragedy--a transition that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65987223">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:23:43 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[An entetaining read, albeit not a deep read.  Perhaps too close to home to make me comfortable, but that is what helped to hold my interest.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294304.Lost_in_Translation">Lost in Translation (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/169934.Nicole_Mones">Nicole Mones</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:52:16 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A good light summer read.  I found most of the characters (other than the main character) to be a little superficial.  And the cultural, though interesting, arguably reflected too much to cultural stereotype.  But it was a page turner.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/280410.The_Nine_Inside_the_Secret_World_of_the_Supreme_Court">The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/163130.Jeffrey_Toobin">Jeffrey Toobin</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:07:46 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This was a surprisingly engaging book.  It was a gift, and I originally assumed it was a novel.   Upon finally getting started, I found it was basically a history of the Rhenquist-Roberts court.   Astoundingly well researched, based on hundreds of interviews, it gives an insightful insiders look at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59270333">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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