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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:00:21 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Fri, 22 May 2009 14:29:15 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Fantastic read from beginning to end. The human character in many angles is revealed in such a simple yet exciting way. I got giddy half way through it and haven't stopped since. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 22 May 2009 14:28:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book is similar to Hunger and The Last Joy, and thus, not a five star rating. I imagine this is the last string of his Hunger phase and hamsun just had to get it out. It is nonetheless, worth the read. The beginning is beautiful with its flowing and terse descriptions of nature. For anyone who ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56993201">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 22 May 2009 14:24:05 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Slow going, yet worth the subtlty. There is one scene where a character gets pinned down to a boulder. On his back, he looks up into the sky as snow falls (mixed with the dying sun) accumulating on his entire body including his face...and slowly he comes to the realization that each flake is a part ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56992741">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 22 May 2009 14:19:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book is sharp. Every word is fresh and revealing, and to say the least, on many levels inspiring. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 22 May 2009 14:18:23 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 22 May 2009 14:17:32 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book is good for any poet. There are a parts that appear unclear to me, perhaps unique or personal, yet I felt I gained a lot for what Hugo had to say. Philip, one of my friends, had borrowed this book from me and seemed to enjoy it. He is into a sculptural/social estethic type art that plays a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56992443">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/514210.The_Way_of_Zen">The Way of Zen (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1501668.Alan_Wilson_Watts">Alan Wilson Watts</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 22 May 2009 14:13:58 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Alan Watts is beyond my understanding. I kept wondering, and I will I continue to wonder as I read more of his stuff, what he was like in person. He speaks with such precision and clarity. I recommend this book to all who are interested in making giant perceptual changes. I thought I had already, bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35912509">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/338798.Ulysses">Ulysses (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5144.James_Joyce">James Joyce</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 22 May 2009 14:09:37 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[As a writer, especially one who likes incoherence and surrealism, as well as the accidental ingenuity of the writting process...this book opened some creative doors for me. It was long, sometimes confusing, yet what is life without confusion (stagnancy?). I imagine the confusion is a &quot;call&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35913445">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 22 May 2009 14:06:22 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Not only is this book lucid, but if anyone is as interest in Zen/Buddhism as I am this will connect a lot of pices for them. I had found it hard to connect the action of impassion with letting go all under the umbrella of non-doing (wu-wei). Sometimes when one gets to a certain point however, despit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56991246">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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