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    <updated_at>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:26:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The characters in this novel are adorable.  the main character's voice is marvelously created.  touching and hilarious.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6968595-ephraim-s-eyes">Ephraim's Eyes (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2958277.Bryan_Walpert">Bryan Walpert</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:31:56 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Very curious stories. Definitely entertaining.  I like how Walpert gets inside his characters' heads and not only shows what they are thinking, but by subtle hints what they are hiding from themselves.  I really like his technique of having a character describe a hypothetical situation that you abso...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81148719">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6159.Reservation_Blues">Reservation Blues (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4174.Sherman_Alexie">Sherman Alexie</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:34:48 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I like how Alexie takes his characters from &quot;The Lone Ranger and Tanto Fistfight in Heaven&quot; and tells a completely different story with them.  Not that this story doesn't fit with the other story, but this one is very different.  Imaginative.  Same characters, very different books.  I love...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41742162">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby">Tar Baby (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3534.Toni_Morrison">Toni Morrison</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:41:24 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I didn't like this book quite as well as some of the other Morrison novels I've read.  I can't really figure out why.  The characters were good.  So was the description and the story line.  It just didn't grab me as much.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146484.The_Great_American_Novel">The Great American Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/463.Philip_Roth">Philip Roth</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:50:05 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[There really is no one like Roth to remake history and suck the reader into believing it really happened.  This novel is so intricately put together that no matter how fantastic Roth makes events, it seems like it really could have happened that way.  The homespun tone is just one tool Roth uses mar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30865853">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:48:32 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book has a good storyline, interesting characters, and vivid description.  The main character's voice is pretty well done, but I think it still comes off as someone writing as if they had an IQ of 76 rather than an actual person with an IQ of 76.  It is pretty well done, but I'm a little too co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41742308">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/109335.Hullabaloo_in_the_Guava_Orchard">Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/31428.Kiran_Desai">Kiran Desai</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:35:04 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I am obsessed with the way the story unfolds.  There is just nothing like it.  It is simple, yet marvelous.  Silly and touching with wonderful characters and a charm all its own.  Absolutely delightful all around.  I wasn't sure the ending was going to pull off the book, but I could not have asked f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41742373">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6327123.City_Of_Thieves">City Of Thieves (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/120401.David_Benioff">David Benioff</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:52:14 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I didn't read this whole book straight through, but only because I had to go to bed after reading the first chapter.  When I started into the second chapter the next day I was hooked all the way through.  It's just such an absurd story.  The range of emotions is impressive as well.  The story wander...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77896412">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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