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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2017530.Welcome_to_the_Monkey_House">Welcome to the Monkey House (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2778055.Kurt_Vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:17:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I just love Vonnegut.  I love how be can take something absurd and make it compelling.  I love how he can make characters feel real without explicitly describing them.  He's truly a master storyteller.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:44:00 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I've intentionally avoided Hemingway, having developed a personal dislike for him through what I've heard of him.   Belligerent, arrogant alcoholics don't rate high on my list of most-loved people and it's hard to enjoy a story when you have any form of a bias, let alone actually disliking the perso...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71226440">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:48:13 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Gardner understood why he wrote and had experience enough teaching to generalize.  He comes off preachy, opinionated, rigid, and on occasion incredibly elitist in what qualifies and &quot;art&quot;, but read as one man's opinions about what it takes to be a novelist it was incredibly interesting.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70745145">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:55:32 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I liked this book a lot, but not without reservations.  I spend a lot of the book waiting for &quot;it&quot; to happen, the thing the book was going to <em>really</em> be about.  I also harbored a personal dislike for the main character for most of the book that I'm not sure I had truly shed by the end of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70393669">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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