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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 1 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6320534.Under_the_Dome_A_Novel">Under the Dome: A Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3389.Stephen_King">Stephen King</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:06:24 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:48:58 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:10:04 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Your review is spot on.<br/><br/>I'm amazed that most people here -- not to mention reviewers in the press -- have rated this book so highly.<br/><br/>KD]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:20:56 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Parts of this were brilliant -- his whole conception of magic, for instance -- but there was an uneven quality to the various sections. The main character was a bit of a damp towel, whining and apathetic at the start, and pretty much the same at the end, which weakened it for me.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:28:30 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Unstoppable violence, unbearable beauty. One of the finest novels I've ever read.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6001372.Pill_Head_The_Secret_Life_of_a_Painkiller_Addict">Pill Head: The Secret Life of a Painkiller Addict (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2748160.Joshua_Lyon">Joshua Lyon</a>]]></action_text>
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