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    <updated_at>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:15:28 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Lots of things about this book are iffy to discuss.  But Humbert is certainly written as a sympathetic character--Jeremy Irons was excellent casting in the movie (which I haven't yet seen) to achieve that end.<br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:26:32 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Ah, I read that a while back.  It's fun. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:34:27 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[<em>frankie wrote: &quot;Let me know if you ever get around to reading The History of Love--I read Man Walks Into a Room after reading her other book and was disappointed.&quot;</em><br/><br/>I'll take your word for it.  I can't believe she can't do better.  Especially if the main character of HoL shares the author's gender.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:03:10 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Well-written--various POVs, intricate scenes.  Sociopolitical gestalts are dated (heavy PC-aware irony).  This was lent to me by a neighbor, who drunkenly said, &quot;It changed my life.&quot;  This is the same guy who responded to my describing a local cat's one-eyedness by saying that he ate the m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35350197">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:01:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:52:59 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Krauss' writing goes one step beyond show-don't-tell, into the realm of tell-how-it-shows.  In one scene, when a character makes a stinging comment to another character, Krauss doesn't say, &quot;She looked hurt.&quot;  She doesn't say, &quot;She winced,&quot; or, &quot;Her eyes squeezed shut and sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52849200">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 25 May 2009 11:33:35 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Oh, shoot!  There's a Reply function here.  Dang.<br/><br/>Anyway, if you do see or have seen History of Violence, I can't help but note that the two sex scenes were put in by Cronenberg, and weren't in the original screenplay.  I think those scenes distract from the otherwise rather formal screenplay.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:43:24 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Moore's dated schoolkid &quot;ew, weird!&quot; fascination with gaydom kind of turned me off in both of his books that I've read (this and Bloodsucking Fiends).  But I'm surprised that you didn't like it too well.  I thought the overwrought humor was just his general style.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:16:51 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[&quot;No matter how how much you think you love someone, you'll always step back when the pool of their blood gets too close.&quot;]]></body>
        
    
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