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    <updated_at>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:42:39 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Sounds interesting...will have to check this one out!]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54890.Nobody_s_Perfect_Writings_from_The_New_Yorker">Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/30947.Anthony_Lane">Anthony Lane</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:21:58 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[My buddy Alen introduced me to Anthony Lane, who was one of my favorite movie reviewers in <em>The New Yorker</em>. Not that I read the New Yorker often, but when I do I always look to see if there's a review by this guy.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7968.Red_Prophet">Red Prophet (Tales of Alvin Maker #2)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/589.Orson_Scott_Card">Orson Scott Card</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:55:26 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I liked the first book the Alvin Maker series, <em>Seventh Son</em> well enough for its folksy look at a young alternative America, filled with homespun magic knacks and big families dreaming even bigger of a better life. In <em>Red Prophet</em>, we get to see the flipside of the white man's knackery compared to thos...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4713554">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49628.Cloud_Atlas">Cloud Atlas (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4565.David_Mitchell">David Mitchell</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:33:34 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136251.Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1077326.J_K_Rowling">J.K. Rowling</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:23:19 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Part of me is thinking I shouldn't be throwin' around the 5 star rating so casually, but I was gripped all the way through. A few things struck me about the book:<br/><br/>* People die, the way they do...suddenly, unexpectedly.<br/><br/>* The psychology of friendship and social forces is not spe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3695391">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11312.Over_Sea_Under_Stone">Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark Is Rising, Book 1)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7308.Susan_Cooper">Susan Cooper</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:44:13 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I can't remember when I first came across this book, but I think it was passed to my sis and I by a nice Canadian missionary lady at the seminary we were growing up on. I remember being enthralled by it, as I was big into the Arthurian legend stuff via T.H. White's &quot;The Sword in the Stone&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3427958">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40290.Seventh_Son">Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker #1)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/589.Orson_Scott_Card">Orson Scott Card</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:40:30 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I was talking to a friend about a book she was reading that had folksy expressions in it, and I remembered the &quot;Alvin Maker&quot; series from Orson Scott Card. I'd forgotten how it's one of my favorite books. I like the depiction of an early alternative America with hard-working people speaking...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3427825">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22320.Pattern_Recognition">Pattern Recognition (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9226.William_Gibson">William Gibson</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:01:44 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I has an affinity for cyberpunk stories, which is how I know Gibson's work. I feel a certain distance, though, between his characters and the world they are caught up in; the language is scintillating, but it feels very &quot;surface&quot; to me. <em>Pattern Recognition</em> was the first of his novels that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3374361">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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