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    <updated_at>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:17:13 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book is about as charming as one about the proper application of punctuation can be. Without equivocation, the author lays out her guidelines for the use of commas, colons, semicolons, dashes, etc., and she's kind of funny, too.<br/><br/>It is a mistake to dismiss this book as elitist, or the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80317247">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[&quot;plums the depths&quot;? I thought it was plumb, but don't really know for sure.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:43:25 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[<em>Electricity is like nothing else in this universe, and we must confront it on it's own terms.</em> That sentence, casually buried near the beginning of the book, exemplifies the engineer's muse: a striving to become aware of the inhuman, how it operates, and to find means of creating a socket for human e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79762716">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[Semi-miserable man with girlfriend but no job finally leaves Paris after girlfriend maybe kills herself, but not before getting intimate with a derelict female. Back home in Buenos Aires, he works, maybe goes crazy, and maybe kills himself. For the duration of the novel's A to Z — which can be tra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79547225">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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