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    <updated_at>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:55:04 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[87th Precinct number 52! I finished this with mixed feelings. Part of me really liked it, part of me wasn't so sure. I decided to give it a low 4. McBain once again explored some different territory with this one and I once again came away with the feeling he was getting bored with his characters an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81772721">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6461927-the-original-curse">The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Throw the 1918 World Series to Babe Ruth's Red Sox and Incite the Black Sox Scandal? (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2928113.Sean_Deveney">Sean Deveney</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:46:16 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is a fascinating, fun book for any &quot;student of the game.&quot; There have been a lot of badly-written baseball books of late but this one is, finally, a joy to read. Deveney tells a great tale about a misbegotten, star-crossed season as the US geared up to jump into the World War, depletin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81771579">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:57:54 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Being a longtime Los Angeleno I figured it was time to acquaint myself with the life of the man who brought the water here and, as much as any one individual,  made this city possible. I deliberately chose the biography by his granddaughter, who claims to set straight a variety of &quot;bad raps&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81687497">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:47:51 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Robert Sawyer reportedly is NOT happy with the current TV series based on his book.  I have not seen it so I can't comment. But the book is very different from what I had expected, given the hype of the show.  It's really an interesting psychological study of how people treat prophecies that they be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81686873">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/480252.The_Big_Bad_City_A_Novel_of_the_87th_Precinct">The Big Bad City: A Novel of the 87th Precinct (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21318.Ed_McBain">Ed McBain</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:40:33 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The forty-ninth entry in the 87th Precinct series (as I close in on the final entries, 55 in all!) and to me a slight disappointment.  But even mediocre Hunter/McBain is still pretty derned good stuff. This one involves the mysterious murder of a nun-- with breast implants yet! (Don't ask, go read t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81686179">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:33:07 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Number 50 in the 87th Precinct series, this one came as a pleasant surprise after its slightly disappointing predecessor, &quot;The Big Bad City.&quot; A nondescript old man dies in a threadbare apartment. His daughter claims he had aheart attack but it quickly becomes obvious that he was killed by ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81685789">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:28:48 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is the 51st book in the 87th Precinct series (I've been on another McBain kick lately, still more or less in chronological order, and shall follow up with a few more). This one could almost pass for one of Donald Westlake's complicated capers, filled as it is with international intrigue, drug s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81684791">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21608.The_Accidental_Time_Machine">The Accidental Time Machine (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12476.Joe_Haldeman">Joe Haldeman</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:18:18 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/624988.The_Harder_They_Fall">The Harder They Fall (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8468.Budd_Schulberg">Budd Schulberg</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:09:38 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Budd Schulberg's second novel, written in 1947, is nowhere near as well known as the Humphrey Bogart film that was made from it several years later. The book is simultaneously funnier and much darker than the film, and ends on an even lower note.  Despite Schulberg's rampant cynicism toward human na...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74856118">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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