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    <about><![CDATA[I am bit regressive in my reading. I read for emotional investment, theme and plot, not for style. I mean, I can recognize when one author has a better or more polished style than another, but I'm far more interested in the content.<br/><br/>I am also far more interested in novels, stories, essays and creeds that contain an element of hope, wherever that stems from.  Big fan of utopic visions, I've been.]]></about>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 03 May 2009 09:33:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It's charming, as all his stuff is, but for my time/money/energy, I think The Hawkline Monster is a better Brautigan novel.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:33:30 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:32:57 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I haven't finished the book, but Samuel Butler is already high on my list of dead literary soul-mates. Anyone who was raised in Christianity and found themselves wracked with doubt and cast on their own resources will feel a kinship with the main character. This book is shockingly funny and frank to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/I%20haven't%20finished%20the%20book,%20but%20Samuel%20Butler%20is%20already%20high%20on%20my%20list%20of%20dead%20literary%20soul-mates.%20Anyone%20who%20was%20raised%20in%20Christianity%20and%20found%20themselves%20wracked%20with%20doubt%20and%20cast%20on%20their%20own%20resources%20will%20feel%20a%20kinship%20with%20the%20main%20character.%20This%20book%20is%20shockingly%20funny%20and%20frank%20to%20have%20been%20written%20by%20a%20Victorian...%20it%20could%20have%20been%20written%20yesterday.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:41:45 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:29:20 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Dark and unsettling, with a nearly-irritating axe to grind, but inventive and atmospheric enough that that didn't bother me. And besides, the axe that was ground is my kind of axe (freedom of speech and thought). I will definitely read this author's other books.]]></body>
        
    
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