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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168668.Catch_22">Catch-22 (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3167.Joseph_Heller">Joseph Heller</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:02:41 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I read this book for the 2nd time last year. What a hoot! This is a crazy comedy and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Recommended reading for those who take life too seriously. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5754277.Thus_Spake_Zarathustra">Thus Spake Zarathustra (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:26:57 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28923.When_We_Were_Orphans">When We Were Orphans (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4280.Kazuo_Ishiguro">Kazuo Ishiguro</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:17:47 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310612.A_Confederacy_of_Dunces">A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3049.John_Kennedy_Toole">John Kennedy Toole</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:16:59 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Well written, the characters are interesting in their own clumsy way and one begins to root for the not too bright policeman. However I thought Ignatius's mom was the real character in this story. Maybe because she is the one that suffers the most from this 'intellectual' son who is the most lazy an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38880879">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28921.The_Remains_of_the_Day">The Remains of the Day (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4280.Kazuo_Ishiguro">Kazuo Ishiguro</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:12:48 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Interesting book. At times becomes laborious in narrative. Sad at the end, but that's how life is I guess.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/779202.Mobs_Messiahs_and_Markets_Surviving_the_Public_Spectacle_in_Finance_and_Politics">Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/40808.William_Bonner">William Bonner</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:10:22 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Very interesting take on the various shills that permeate the public and political space in the world. However, I think Bonner is as guilty of coloring his thoughts with an inward bias. Good read - especially the views on looking at the so called martyrs such as che, mao and many other despots...]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/369704.Soros_on_Soros_Staying_Ahead_of_the_Curve">Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/76751.George_Soros">George Soros</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:06:23 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Interesting philosophy and dogma from the man who started it all - with leverage in the world of finance.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4894.Who_Moved_My_Cheese_">Who Moved My Cheese? (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3340.Spencer_Johnson">Spencer Johnson</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:36:24 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/369708.The_Alchemy_of_Finance">The Alchemy of Finance (Wiley Investment Classics)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/76751.George_Soros">George Soros</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:34:01 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Hard to understand from the intial pages since Soros does not do a good job of laying out the principle thesis. However I like what he says about the &quot;participant afffecting outcome&quot;. This turns the theory of the anthropologists and &quot;objective&quot; minded scholars on it's face. Nothi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19332353">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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