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    <updated_at>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:18:51 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[i didn't realize slavery was so front and center in the constitutional discussions.  politics (unity was more important than morality, it seems) won the day, and not only was slavery not abolished, but slave states were allowed to count their slaves for representation purposes, though only as 3/5ths...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63106894">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:00:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[So, Denham Dobie is an awkward, poor relation from &quot;down there&quot; (one of those swarthy, southern places, in this case, Andorra) come to live with her swell relations in sparkling, early 20th century London.  She doesn't seem to get it, and they her, and nary the two shall meet.  The frisson...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50047869">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:11:48 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A fun book, a combination of dark underworld, magic and a bit of history and geography.  Would like to have seen more of the latter two, but it was only in the middle of the book that I learned that the story existed in another medium first, so the book is essentially a screenplay.  I haven't seen t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50047114">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/956719.Engleby_A_Novel">Engleby: A Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4229.Sebastian_Faulks">Sebastian Faulks</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:56:50 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[There's something particularly engaging about the title character, his cynical, arrogant intelligence, the easy way one is let into his mind/world through the text, one gets to be intimate/familiar with him in short order.  And it's interesting, structurally, that the dramatic action takes a backsea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46499704">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:26:11 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5571.Cradle_to_Cradle_Remaking_the_Way_We_Make_Things">Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3775.Michael_Braungart">Michael Braungart</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:13:33 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Sweet and sour on this book:<br/><br/>Sweet:<br/><br/>-- Is a nice philosophic groundwork for re-thinking our relationship to the earth, to manufacturing, to design. Broad and all-encompassing. <br/><br/>-- Some potent ideas about how processes and materials work can or don't work in an ecolog...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40932060">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 1 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612.The_Tipping_Point">The Tipping Point (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1439.Malcolm_Gladwell">Malcolm Gladwell</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:22:40 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Amidst all of the interesting stories/data that try to illuminate what makes &quot;word of mouth,&quot; is an irrepressible enthusiasm for the salesmanship that I abhor: the annoying, cloying mindset that feels it has to convince you, mainly to BUY something.  When the book focuses on the non-commer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37862472">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:03:38 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[now, now j, the television comment's a little snarky, makes me worried that were i to read any of these, i might not be &quot;locked in&quot; and damned to vidiocy!]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386559.Beyond_Belief_The_Secret_Gospel_of_Thomas">Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12804.Elaine_Pagels">Elaine Pagels</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:07:43 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A bit repetitive in parts, but it was interesting to learn more about the &quot;apocryphal&quot; gospels (as we were taught they were called), and especially the politics surrounding how  gospels became canonized or not.  Fairly balanced in trying to portray that while there was a political componen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37384422">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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