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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:43:14 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Too bad!  I was so looking forward to this book, but perhaps the post-modern mash-up just won't work with literature.<br/><br/>I guess I'll abandon my planned adaptation of Tolstoy, &quot;War and Peace and the Beatles.&quot;]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:34:46 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2418471.The_Intelligence_of_Flowers">The Intelligence of Flowers (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/142051.Maurice_Maeterlinck">Maurice Maeterlinck</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:36:30 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A poetic celebration of the &quot;genius&quot; of flowers.  Maeterlinck wants to break down the high ridge that separates the animal and plant kingdoms and argues convincingly for a different understanding of intelligence than argument and reason.  After reading this book, your own body feels mulchi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/A%20poetic%20celebration%20of%20the%20%22genius%22%20of%20flowers.%20%20Maeterlinck%20wants%20to%20break%20down%20the%20high%20ridge%20that%20separates%20the%20animal%20and%20plant%20kingdoms%20and%20argues%20convincingly%20for%20a%20different%20understanding%20of%20intelligence%20than%20argument%20and%20reason.%20%20After%20reading%20this%20book,%20your%20own%20body%20feels%20mulchier%20and%20more%20vegetal.%20">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 1 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2967752.The_Elegance_of_the_Hedgehog">The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/643126.Muriel_Barbery">Muriel Barbery</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:40:01 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[For an ostensibly philosophical novel about class differences, The Elegance of the Hedgehog shows surprisingly little understanding of either the philosophies it bowdlerizes or the politics it critiques, and its characters are mere fantasies, idealized notions of both the rich and the proletarian.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/For%20an%20ostensibly%20philosophical%20novel%20about%20class%20differences,%20The%20Elegance%20of%20the%20Hedgehog%20shows%20surprisingly%20little%20understanding%20of%20either%20the%20philosophies%20it%20bowdlerizes%20or%20the%20politics%20it%20critiques,%20and%20its%20characters%20are%20mere%20fantasies,%20idealized%20notions%20of%20both%20the%20rich%20and%20the%20proletarian.%20%20Set%20in%20a%20posh%20apartment%20building%20in%20the%20upper-crusty%207th%20arrondissement%20of%20Paris,%20the%20novel%20concerns%20a%20poor%20but%20erudite%20concierge%20and%20a%20rich%20but%20erudite%20twelve-year-old%20girl,%20both%20of%20whom%20have%20banal%20insights%20about%20life%20that%20the%20author%20attempts%20to%20pass%20off%20as%20profound.%20%20In%20fact,%20though%20the%20author%20is%20a%20professor%20of%20philosophy,%20she%20mistakes%20the%20act%20of%20name-dropping%20famous%20philosophers%20with%20actually%20developing%20or%20exploring%20the%20implications%20of%20philosophical%20ideas%20through%20her%20characters.%20%20We%20are%20left%20with%20an%20arch,%20precious%20narrative%20that%20congratulates%20itself%20and%20its%20readers%20for%20remembering%20Husserl%20and%20Marx%20from%20college%20survey%20courses,%20nevermind%20whether%20or%20not%20you%20ever%20read%20their%20writings.%20%20A%20consistently%20grating%20book,%20The%20Elegance%20of%20the%20Hedgehog%20masquerades%20as%20a%20Marxist%20evaluation%20of%20bourgeois%20assumptions%20while%20enlivening%20those%20very%20assumptions%20with%20bourgeois%20fantasies%20of%20the%20poor.%20%20A%20book%20that%20strokes%20the%20egos%20of%20middle%20class%20readers%20by%20telling%20them%20that,%20as%20they%20always%20suspected,%20philosophy%20is%20a%20dish%20best%20served%20tepidly%20reheated.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69117.The_Very_Lowly_A_Meditation_on_Francis_of_Assisi">The Very Lowly: A Meditation on Francis of Assisi (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/32822.Christian_Bobin">Christian Bobin</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:58:19 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[An ethereal, too-short contemplation of poverty and spirituality, with Francis of Assisi more a point of departure than a subject.  Bobin's poetic language creates an internal space of quiet, and some single sentences tilt the world a few degrees to the side, so that your view when you look up from ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/An%20ethereal,%20too-short%20contemplation%20of%20poverty%20and%20spirituality,%20with%20Francis%20of%20Assisi%20more%20a%20point%20of%20departure%20than%20a%20subject.%20%20Bobin's%20poetic%20language%20creates%20an%20internal%20space%20of%20quiet,%20and%20some%20single%20sentences%20tilt%20the%20world%20a%20few%20degrees%20to%20the%20side,%20so%20that%20your%20view%20when%20you%20look%20up%20from%20the%20page%20is%20better%20than%20it%20had%20been%20before.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:17:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1883390.The_Discovery_of_France_A_Historical_Geography_from_the_Revolution_to_the_First_World_War">The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/35444.Graham_Robb">Graham Robb</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:16:01 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A comprehensively researched, witty, unexpected history of France told through both geography and historiography.  One of those rare books that transcends the specifics of its subject to become an analysis of culture itself, the things we find important, how those things change (or don't change) wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/A%20comprehensively%20researched,%20witty,%20unexpected%20history%20of%20France%20told%20through%20both%20geography%20and%20historiography.%20%20One%20of%20those%20rare%20books%20that%20transcends%20the%20specifics%20of%20its%20subject%20to%20become%20an%20analysis%20of%20culture%20itself,%20the%20things%20we%20find%20important,%20how%20those%20things%20change%20(or%20don't%20change)%20with%20time%20and%20how%20we%20express%20our%20priorities%20as%20individuals%20and%20as%20groups.%20%20I%20cannot%20recommend%20this%20book%20highly%20enough.%20%20It%20helps%20if%20you're%20interested%20in%20France%20(or%20Europe%20in%20general)%20to%20begin%20with,%20but%20any%20student%20of%20history%20or%20cultural%20anthropology%20will%20find%20Robb's%20approach%20fresh%20and%20engaging.%20%20Beautifully%20written%20line%20by%20line,%20beautifully%20conceived%20as%20a%20whole,%20chock%20full%20of%20fresh%20insights%20and%20fun.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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