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    <updated_at>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:40:44 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I won't tell. Of course, everything you write here is searchable on Google so now the whole world knows but...nevermind that. : )]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:53:26 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I was delighted with &quot;Timbuktu,&quot; the first book of his i ever read. I gave up on him, at least provisionally, after &quot;Oracle Night,&quot; which was also, for reasons I didn't try to pull out of the general spaghetti stranded mass of the thing, just okay. For me, anyway. Didn't read this one. What was missing for you?]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:19:47 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Shyne recommended this book to me. She's on a dystopian kick right now, and says this is one of the best she has read.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:18:46 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Sue Rope recommended this book to me. It's a first person dog book!]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:57:05 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Good, because it's on the nightstand...um...under a whole lot of other books. Ever wish you could stop time and just sit and read for, like, a year?]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:55:05 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I tried to read this book once many years ago and bogged down, but too many readers and writers I respect loved it for me not to take another shot at it.]]></body>
        
    
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