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    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/231235-book-nominations-for-november-december</link>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:21:30 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[As is my wont, I made it sound a lot more interesting than it actually is. It's not a bad book. None of his books are out-and-out bad. And he's got this magic writing style that carries you along. But as I have said before, it's compelling until you finish it. He hints at all sorts of deeper currents of meaning in the stories, and has even started trying to present an actual _other_ world in his recent novels. But it's a joke, a huge letdown. <br/><br/>I think that's what really irritates me about his writing: he has a lot of potential, and his writing style is so good, that it creates very high expectations inside me. And he has never really lived up to those expectations.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[made a comment on the poll Please vote by clicking on a book for the November/December edition of the Book Club:]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:10:57 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[So what does this mean?<br/><br/>If we split the Oe books, does that mean we read Personal Affair?]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1278509.Collected_Poems">Collected Poems (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/46171.Vasko_Popa">Vasko Popa</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:24:22 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/464926.Collected_Poems_1920_1954_Revised_Bilingual_Edition">Collected Poems 1920-1954: Revised Bilingual Edition (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7333.Eugenio_Montale">Eugenio Montale</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:24:16 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15582.Cosmos_and_Pornografia_Two_Novels">Cosmos and Pornografia: Two Novels (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9632.Witold_Gombrowicz">Witold Gombrowicz</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:14:37 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1072113.HarperCollins_Study_Bible_Student_Edition_Fully_Revised_Updated">HarperCollins Study Bible - Student Edition: Fully Revised &amp; Updated (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/26890.Wayne_A_Meeks">Wayne A. Meeks</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:43:19 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Haven't finished it, but just want it off my &quot;currently reading&quot; shelf.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/766406.Standard_Arabic_An_Elementary_Intermediate_Course">Standard Arabic: An Elementary-Intermediate Course (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/149973.Eckehard_Schulz">Eckehard Schulz</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:40:43 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The best Arabic language textbook out there. Skips the hand-holding and gets right to the heart of language-learning: vocab and grammar. Lots of both. <br/><br/>Haven't actually finished it, but want it off my &quot;current-reading shelf.&quot;]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1603521.A_History_of_Russian_Literature">A History of Russian Literature (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11331.Victor_Terras">Victor Terras</a>]]></action_text>
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