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          <body><![CDATA[Reading this book made me want to start a writing group and take over the world (well okay, maybe just Providence Rhode Island) with force and avant guard poetry. I haven't read poetry in a long time, but am inspired to delve back in. Taking recommendations and searching high and low for a collectio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63452370">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[My new roommate recommended it, further validating my instincts that he'll be a good one! I dropped my copy of The Savage Detectives in the bathtub last night (!!!) so I may have ruined it! I'll have to check to see if one of the used stores has this one....Need to stockpile my reading for the weeks to come! ]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[Need to re-read this in the context of King Leopold's Ghost. Didn't have all this history first time I read it over 10 years ago; however, I do remember getting the impression that as an explorer, Stanley did seem a bit countryless. King Leopold's Ghost sheds light on this. ]]></body>
        
    
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