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    <updated_at>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:54:32 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The Gambler is the best novella I've ever read, bar none.  Dostoevsky must have written it in a fever, being no mean gambler himself.  Besides conveying the fever &amp; compulsion at the gaming tables, the action exists on multiple levels and has many ironic twists, including a final head-spinner.  Fascinating characters:  The General, Granny, Mr. Astley, Polina, The Countess.  One of my very favorite reads!<br/><br/><br/><br/>Terry]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:59:10 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Was surprised to learn that Mr. Gibbon was a leading figure in the British Age of Enlightenment.  He received much obloquy in his time from the Church of England and other clerics.  The fall of Rome is intimately connected with the rise of Christianity.  Mr. Gibbon views the transition with the disp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15679177">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:49:52 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The best place to start is Expelled from Eden--a William T. Vollmann Reader.  The first page contains the infamous 1985 photo of a sulky young Vollmann posing with a .380 Baretta pistol to his head.  The young Vollman had a great fondness for hanging around and writing about whores because of his ugly body and coke-bottle glasses. Then there is the infamous &quot;How to Smoke Crack&quot; piece. Obviously he had a thirst for shock and notoriety, but the more serious stuff shows a budding monster talent, one who would eventually publish a 3,000 page study on violence and win the National Book Award for Europe Central.  <br/><br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45681.The_Rainbow_Stories">The Rainbow Stories (Contemporary American Fiction)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/940746.William_T_Vollmann">William T. Vollmann</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:08:22 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The first long piece in the book is a long piece on San Francisco skinheads.  Only Vollmann could hold my interest in such folks.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:04:59 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Nothing like Johnson's other work, which is excellent in that Johnson is always willing to try new things.  Although the book is arranged chronologically, I quickly became lost in the thicket of events and American and Vietnamese characters.  At times, I had to reread passages to ensure I had good u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12430027">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:47:02 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This, the unabridged version of the seven volume work, was daunting enough.  Vollmann explores violence and violent uprising through modern history.  Some he witnessed himself (Sarajevo, Afghanistan, Jamaica), others he views through the lens of history (especially the party purges and gulags of Sta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8427508">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:08:02 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I came to this looking for a quotation.  This is not the edition I am reading, as mine appears to run much longer.  I admit to being totally taken in by the author's charming and humble preface to his own work.  I look forward to reading this on vacation and disappearing into the world of the 18th c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7582338">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:58:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[In this book, Hiaasen achieves a nice feat.  He blends a modern noir with patches of dark hilarity, like the Coen Brother's Fargo. This is a tale of grifters ranging through post-hurricane-Andrew Florida, ripping off victims who have just been through a terrible natural disaster.   Snapper, a grifte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6900984">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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