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    <updated_at>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:30:14 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It was really funny. Some chapters are only funny when you read them aloud to someone else. That's a valid literary function: it makes reading an interactive experience. I'm also astonished at how much he got away with insulting his wife throughout this work.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:28:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:28:15 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:51 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[M.R. James is a hilarious and skilled writer.  If you're done with Poe's heavy melodrama and Lovecraft's self-obsession, it's time for a classical ghost story.  James apparently doesn't think much of golfers or golfing, a comical quirk that surfaces in various stories just as a pleasant aside to ric...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76918769">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:02:07 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is a fantastic, delicious, delirious collection of classical ghost stories.  That is, you may not have heard of these stories unless you're abreast of Irish literature, but they are written in a charming, colorful colloquial vein.  They're amusing, they're creepy, and they are a delight at ever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76918502">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:57:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is an excellent fundamental book that begins to show how customers respond to marketing.  I would recommend this as a springboard for further marketing research.  It would also be valuable to anyone, marketer or otherwise, starting up a Web site and wanting to attract some attention.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:12:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is potentially the funniest book I have ever read.  It's heavy on the rape jokes, though.  The Onion writers are way, way too fond of rape jokes.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4395088.The_Best_of_Gene_Wolfe_A_Definitive_Retrospective_of_His_Finest_Short_Fiction">The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23069.Gene_Wolfe">Gene Wolfe</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:12:11 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Gene Wolfe personally selected all of the stories to be included here (except the last story) and included a small explanation or background story to each one.  The stories are excellent and important reading, the addenda are fascinating and illuminating.  Anyone who enjoys words and ideas should ow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67125230">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/250638.The_Zen_of_Fish_The_Story_of_Sushi_from_Samurai_to_Supermarket">The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/145176.Trevor_Corson">Trevor Corson</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:05:32 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The exposition is a little jejune, but the story is rich with information from intensive and comprehensive study.  If you don't mind being talked down to a little, it's a fascinating book.]]></body>
        
    
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