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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2918744.The_Busker_s_Fake_Book_1001_All_Time_Hit_Songs">The Busker's Fake Book 1001 All-Time Hit Songs (Partition)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1262907.The_Beatles_The_Bee_Gees_Elton_John_Abba">The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Elton John Abba</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:19:12 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Not actually the book I have, I seem to have an unlisted(here and Amazon) companion copy called 1001 hit songs(no mention of buskers)<br/>It is however a great overview of songs seasonal,folk,rock,standards and some fairly obscure stuff limiting maybe how many of the 1001 I actually know and can pl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80748760">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217588.The_Starship_Trap">The Starship Trap (Star Trek, Book 64)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/103167.Mel_Gilden">Mel Gilden</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:23:48 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[My ongoing haul through the Star Trek books I picked up at a local charity shop delivered this,my biggest reticence around Star Trek is all that uniformed peace and Star Fleet inforced rule accross the galaxy it reeks of the 'new world order' or 'new universal order' as the case may be.<br/>In some...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79965376">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/542389.Stalingrad_The_Fateful_Siege_1942_1943">Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3407.Antony_Beevor">Antony Beevor</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:12:14 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/478551.Works_of_William_Blake">Works of William Blake (Wordsworth Poetry Library)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13453.William_Blake">William Blake</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:11:44 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[To be honest this was likely to stay on my currently reading status for an age as I never tire of Blake's prose and consistently return yo it,dipping in and out of various bits as the mood takes]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242241.Chart_Throb">Chart Throb (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5738.Ben_Elton">Ben Elton</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:14:25 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book though fictional and based in humour taught me much of the manipulative powers of TV and particualry reaality trash such as X factor.<br/>I hope this book does for reality shows what the God delusion has sone for religion.<br/>Not neccessarily the best written book I have read and the ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77871958">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[took the never-ending book quiz]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:09:00 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8827.The_First_Casualty">The First Casualty (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5738.Ben_Elton">Ben Elton</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:08:19 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It's funny how the first world war seems to being out Elton's best work,This is in no way alike Blackadder goes forth it's a far more serious proposition and really shows how Elton has grown from novels which provide comic respite with politics added.<br/>Ben Elton does his usual thing of giving hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77871135">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5063576.The_Narrative_of_Arthur_Gordon_Pym_of_Nantucket_An_Antarctic_Mystery">The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket &amp; An Antarctic Mystery (The Sphinx of the Ice Fields)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5756.Edgar_Allan_Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77679323</link>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:06:00 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This would have recieved more Stars had the whole style of the book been more in the vein of Jules Vernes section of the book.<br/>From what I understand this is the only 'novel' by Edgar Allen Poe though in respects of the version I have(an older copy not pictured)it would be more a Novella being ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77679323">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21340.City_of_Night">City of Night (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #2)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9355.Dean_Koontz">Dean Koontz</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77085562</link>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:29:31 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A bit disapointed in this one to be honest,the narrative is as fast and compelling as book one and yet the elements that were introduced towards the end of book one present themselves again here but developed to a point that Istarted to lose interest.<br/>A book of this type has to stretch imaginat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77085562">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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