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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161116.The_Thanatos_Syndrome">The Thanatos Syndrome (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/337.Walker_Percy">Walker Percy</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:12:24 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:11:47 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Took me forever to finish although it is short. I dont think there is much substance in this one. What substance there is could have been said in fewer words. I really wanted him to address the cross as a symbol but he completely ignores it. He's written so much, maybe I need to find a different boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59051717">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80063.Divisadero">Divisadero (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4030.Michael_Ondaatje">Michael Ondaatje</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:33:04 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Michael Ondaatje is so much better than this. He aims for haunting beauty but Marilynne Robinson nails that much better; this tale pales in comparison. I found this story fragmented and self indulgent. He writes such lovely sentences and has such fresh ways of including the telling details in a scen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58296574">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:32:06 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Oh my god. This is the best book I have ever read for its sheer haunting, ethereal beauty and continuum of sorrow and joy. I think about it all the time. I measure other books against it. Most fail. Read this in a rented house on the Rhone, in the town of Condrieu, where I escaped from my family and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59049298">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:08:29 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Chick noir? Is that a genre? A haunting story narrated by an unnamed, mixed-race &quot;white-looking&quot; female journalist with identity issues and her doppleganger, a half German-half black secretary, who makes up for the narrator's namelessness and makes the narrator's racial anxiety problems se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58985993">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:01:23 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206998.TechGnosis_Myth_Magic_Mysticism_in_the_Age_of_Information">TechGnosis: Myth, Magic &amp; Mysticism in the Age of Information (Five Star Fiction)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/121068.Erik_Davis">Erik Davis</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:57:08 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this thoroughly and adore the way Erik Davis thinks, although he's a bit wacky. In a good, nerdy way.]]></body>
        
    
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