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    <updated_at>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:18:46 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Bio of the man who re-shaped the US economy. He didn't do it alone, but he definitely accomplished a lot...]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:17:26 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16123.Titan_The_Life_of_John_D_Rockefeller_Sr_">Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9950.Ron_Chernow">Ron Chernow</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:17:06 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[You see how amazing of a businessman he was, while at the same time what a prick he could be. But you feel for him...]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16113.A_Dance_to_the_Music_of_Time_First_Movement">A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9947.Anthony_Powell">Anthony Powell</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:15:42 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This goes on the to-read shelf alongside Churchill. Fictional, but loosely based on the author's own life.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10765.A_Year_in_the_Merde">A Year in the Merde (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7041.Stephen_Clarke">Stephen Clarke</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2140</link>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:17:07 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Whether you love or hate the French, this book will at least give you a chuckle. About a Brit who spends a year in France trying to start a business and all of the crap he runs into.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10756.The_Sword_and_the_Shield_The_Mitrokhin_Archive_and_the_Secret_History_of_the_KGB">The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7030.Christopher_Andrew">Christopher Andrew</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:15:31 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This thing is dense. It's not really well written, but the information presented is amazing. It's the Mitrokhin papers, basically hand-copied archives from the KGB archivist, who defected in the early 1990s.<br/>I pick it up every few months, read a couple of hundred pages, and put it down.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10750.Wicked_The_Life_and_Times_of_the_Wicked_Witch_of_the_West">Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Musical Tie-in Edition)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7025.Gregory_Maguire">Gregory Maguire</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:12:57 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I liked this in the same way I liked Lord of the Rings: it's essentially fantasy, but in a familiar way since we all grew up with thinking of the Wicked Witch of the West as this horrible evil person. <br/>Definitely worth a read.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10058.Flags_of_Our_Fathers">Flags of Our Fathers (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6568.James_Bradley">James Bradley</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:10:19 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A book about heroes who truly didn't think they were heroes.<br/>Knew the movie was coming out, so had to read this first. Told from the perspective of the son of one of the flagraisers, half of whom died at Iwo Jima, and the rest were not too excited to talk about it.<br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10120.Tea_With_Tracey">Tea With Tracey (Mass Market Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6610.Tracey_Caswell">Tracey Caswell</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:03:04 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[anyone moving to the Rock should read this, not just women, at whom the book is targeted. Some parts are a bit outdated -- A/C takes care of many of the ongoing issues she faced -- but a lot of it is still very relevant.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10108.The_Autobiography_of_Henry_VIII_With_Notes_by_His_Fool_Will_Somers">The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6599.Margaret_George">Margaret George</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:00:11 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[fictional but using known history when possible and filling in the rest.]]></body>
        
    
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