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    <updated_at>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:08:14 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I like Paul Beatty a good deal and wish that this pop-culture referencing, witty, quick paced prose won the Pulitizer Prize over &quot;Oscar Wao&quot;.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/812777.Dragon_s_Teeth">Dragon's Teeth (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23510.Upton_Sinclair">Upton Sinclair</a>]]></action_text>
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415412.A_Bell_for_Adano">A Bell for Adano (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15328.John_Hersey">John Hersey</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:45:05 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The first pages of the book essentially give away the last pages, but between the story of an American military man installed as mayor of an war-time occupied Italian town is rather enjoyable to read. It's a short book, simply written, not trying to do anything other than tell a story. Very readable...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39506726">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 1 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3359.Angle_of_Repose">Angle of Repose (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/157779.Wallace_Stegner">Wallace Stegner</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:42:57 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I don't think I like period books.  This book was a touch too depressing in tone and continually disappointment.  I also had to think about the meaning of the title too much until it was hit over my head at the end.  It has, however, revived the use technical terms for metaphors in my life, which is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22688226">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2254352.My_Sister_My_Love_The_Intimate_Story_of_Skyler_Rampike">My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3524.Joyce_Carol_Oates">Joyce Carol Oates</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:37:49 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[JCO is wonderful. There has been a trend I've noticed of late to footnote in prose. It's too much like reading academic reading at times. However, in this book, the brother of a murdered child star covered endlessly in the media, the one footnote that discusses how he is footnote in his sister's sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26677092">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/357734.Blonde_A_Novel">Blonde: A Novel (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3524.Joyce_Carol_Oates">Joyce Carol Oates</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:35:34 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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