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    <updated_at>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:55:19 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The Gatsby comparisons are justified in terms of plot. Of course we won't know if this is the ultimate portrait of our age put to words for a long time to come..but the story is ingeniously woven and Chuck Ramkisoon is one of the most delightfully mysterious characters I've read in contemporary lite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67173288">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:48:58 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'm feeling the Faulkner influence, but I'm also feeling it's..a classic nvel of the South that isn't necessarily about all of the &quot;issues&quot; everyone insists on bringing up when they discuss the South.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:46:49 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[McPhee can deliver some metaphors and make geology interesting. He does what he set out to do -- explain the history of the eastern United States in succinct fashion.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:44:39 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Vollmann turns down the usual obsession in this book. As a result he doesn't seem as inspired and I find myself learning less than usual -- perhaps because the literary references are more familiar here than his usual selections. It's still Vollmann -- so I still think he's batshit crazy and there's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67172082">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:42:00 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I could read it all day, everyday. Never have there been better sentences. And the set pieces]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:39:56 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Alt history of the early Republic told through the eyes of a man less enamored with the politicians he was surrounded by than the historians that made them godheads? Yes, please can i have another.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:35:22 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3009435.A_Mercy">A Mercy (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3534.Toni_Morrison">Toni Morrison</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:30:42 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This thin volume is by turns a good introduction and definitive statement in &quot;The <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved" title="Beloved by Toni Morrison">Toni Morrison</a> Project&quot; of trying to sniff out some atonement and identity for the people that were oppressed when this nation was created. The book's length makes it impossible for us to feel to bonded to the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42444362">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1768603.The_White_Tiger">The White Tiger (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/810254.Aravind_Adiga">Aravind Adiga</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:26:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Very artful portrait of the Indian underclass and the reality of modern India beyond call centers and religious strife. Adiga is heavily influenced by Salman Rushdie, but doesn't allow the vehicle he uses to tell the story trap him into making it all seem like a fairy tale. Because he isn't that com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38074705">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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