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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2473543.The_Saddest_Country_On_Assignment_in_Colombia">The Saddest Country: On Assignment in Colombia (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1099176.Nicholas_Coghlan">Nicholas Coghlan</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:51:51 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Initially, I was fairly disappointed by Coghlan's effort, felt it was just a sort of war tourist travelogue by a Canadian diplomat. Yet, over time it grew on me due to: (1) interesting descriptions of nearly every section of the country; and (2) a decent overview of the 1998 elections.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/436005.Underworld">Underworld (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/233.Don_DeLillo">Don DeLillo</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:06:47 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Hulking in size and sometimes in the Arizona wastes, but nearly always lighter elsewhere. As a reluctant post-modernist, my favorite bits are obviously the prologue at the grand old Polo Grounds and the snapshot takes of the 50s and 60s in Part Five, where the Lenny Bruce and J. Edgar Hoover and Jac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Hulking%20in%20size%20and%20sometimes%20in%20the%20Arizona%20wastes,%20but%20nearly%20always%20lighter%20elsewhere.%20As%20a%20reluctant%20post-modernist,%20my%20favorite%20bits%20are%20obviously%20the%20prologue%20at%20the%20grand%20old%20Polo%20Grounds%20and%20the%20snapshot%20takes%20of%20the%2050s%20and%2060s%20in%20Part%20Five,%20where%20the%20Lenny%20Bruce%20and%20J.%20Edgar%20Hoover%20and%20Jackson,%20Mississippi%20and%20Madison%20Avenue%20treatments%20reminded%20me%20of%20the%20best%20parts%20of%20%3Ca%20href=%22http:%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F400.Libra%22%3E%3Ci%3ELibra%3C%2Fi%3E%3C%2Fa%3E.%0D%0A%0D%0AAs%20to%20that%20iconic%20cover,%20I%20remember%20my%20Dad%20bringing%20home%20a%20copy%20when%20I%20was%20in%20high%20school%20and%20finding%20myself%20staring%20at%20it%20hungrily.%20For%20years%20I%20assumed%20the%20church%20in%20the%20foreground%20was%20Our%20Lady%20of%20Pompeii%20at%20Carmine%20and%20Bleeker%20Street.%20However,%20a%20couple%20of%20months%20ago%20I%20was%20walking%20down%206th%20Avenue%20there,%20caught%20the%20church%20in%20my%20mind,%20and%20it%20struck%20me%20last%20week%20that%20Our%20Lady's%20steeple%20has%20a%20little%20classical%20cupola%20while%20our%20%3Ci%3EUnderworld%3C%2Fi%3E%20steeple%20has%20more%20of%20an%20Italianate%20thing%20going%20on.%20So%20now%20I'm%20actually%20reading%20this%20bastard,%20and%20in%20an%20off-moment%20I%20get%20to%20Googling%20the%20credited%20photographer,%20Andr%C3%A9%20Kert%C3%A9sz.%20Pretty%20soon,%20it's%20clear%20that%20the%20cover's%20image%20is%20a%20cropped,%20retouched,%20and%20edited%201972%20photo%20Kert%C3%A9sz%20had%20taken%20from%20his%20window%20looking%20south%20over%20Washington%20Square.%20The%20church%20is%20famous%20Judson%20Memorial%20Baptist%20on%20Washington%20Square%20South,%20the%20World%20Trade%20Center%20is%20either%20nearly%20complete%20or%20just%20finished%20and%20bathed%20in%20delicious%20fog,%20and%20that%20soaring%20pigeon%20ascribed%20so%20much%20prophetic%20meaning%20after%209%2F11%3F%20It%20seems%20to%20have%20been%20inserted%20there%20by%20the%20jacket%20designer,%20Carol%20D.%20Carson,%20and%20it's%20the%20detail%20that%20ties%20the%20whole%20thing%20up.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/895295.World_s_End">World's End (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1064072.T_C_Boyle">T.C. Boyle</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:16:33 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Historical fiction with heft, trundling over more than three hundred years of Hudson River upper class oppression and, more importantly, individual acts of self-destruction. Van Wartville is kind of like a hybridization of Rensselaerswyck and Cortlandt Manor, of the Van Rensselaers and Van Cortlandt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Historical%20fiction%20with%20heft,%20trundling%20over%20more%20than%20three%20hundred%20years%20of%20Hudson%20River%20upper%20class%20oppression%20and,%20more%20importantly,%20individual%20acts%20of%20self-destruction.%20Van%20Wartville%20is%20kind%20of%20like%20a%20hybridization%20of%20Rensselaerswyck%20and%20Cortlandt%20Manor,%20of%20the%20Van%20Rensselaers%20and%20Van%20Cortlandts.%20The%20Arcadia%20and%20its%20folk%20singer%20champion%20are%20obvious%20foils%20of%20Pete%20Seeger%20and%20the%20Clearwater.%20One%20of%20the%20most%20gripping%20historical%20renderings%20is%20of%20the%201949%20Peekskill%20riots,%20where%20the%20outpouring%20of%20violence,%20hatred,%20and%20fear%20is%20sickening%20yet%20absorbing.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1994423.Snitch_Jacket">Snitch Jacket (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/906170.Christopher_Goffard">Christopher Goffard</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:23:53 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Very fun crime fiction centering on sections of Orange County, California less desirous than those featured in &quot;The Real Housewives of OC.&quot; (In fact, it's probably these very areas that spawned Tamra and Giggles before they made the leap to Strip Mall Republican respectability by marrying ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Very%20fun%20crime%20fiction%20centering%20on%20sections%20of%20Orange%20County,%20California%20less%20desirous%20than%20those%20featured%20in%20%22The%20Real%20Housewives%20of%20OC.%22%20(In%20fact,%20it's%20probably%20these%20very%20areas%20that%20spawned%20Tamra%20and%20Giggles%20before%20they%20made%20the%20leap%20to%20Strip%20Mall%20Republican%20respectability%20by%20marrying%20car%20lot%20barons%20and%20real%20estate%20pygmy%20Ponzis.)%20Goffard's%20portrait%20of%20the%20landscape%20and%20its%20bit%20players%20is%20better%20done%20than%20his%20investigation%20of%20the%20delusional%20mind%20of%20his%20protagonist,%20and%20the%20various%20twists%20towards%20the%20end%20of%20Act%20Three%20lacked%20a%20certain%20amount%20of%20punch,%20but%20still:%20meth%20+%20white%20trash%20+%20botched%20contract%20murder%20at%20Burning%20Man%20=%20imagery%20we%20all%20can%20delight%20in.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1862313.Lush_Life_A_Novel">Lush Life: A Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16481.Richard_Price">Richard Price</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:07:24 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I love Richard Price's ear for dialogue, how he can recreate with precision the way an aging LES hipster or cop from New Dorp Beach would verbally navigate a murder scene or essay a response to a tabloid hack's query. Plus, the comic moments are short and staccato just like how in real life funny th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/I%20love%20Richard%20Price's%20ear%20for%20dialogue,%20how%20he%20can%20recreate%20with%20precision%20the%20way%20an%20aging%20LES%20hipster%20or%20cop%20from%20New%20Dorp%20Beach%20would%20verbally%20navigate%20a%20murder%20scene%20or%20essay%20a%20response%20to%20a%20tabloid%20hack's%20query.%20Plus,%20the%20comic%20moments%20are%20short%20and%20staccato%20just%20like%20how%20in%20real%20life%20funny%20things%20tend%20to%20pop%20out%20of%20the%20ordinary%20and%20then%20quickly%20die%20away.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7102536-the-fenian-movement">The Fenian Movement (Thomas Davis Lecture Series)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3156419.T_W_Moody">T. W. Moody</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:57:42 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was quite a man, but I think the prize here goes to John Devoy, for longevity if nothing else. That one man could remain in the game from the valiant, ill-fated sputterings of 1867 through the glory of 1916 and the Revolution is mind-boggling.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93836.Sound_and_Fury_The_Washington_Punditocracy_and_the_Collapse_of_American_Politics">Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/53824.Eric_Alterman">Eric Alterman</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76201795</link>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:49:14 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Very, very good. Serves as an excellent reminder that every High Broderist to Zombie Reagan pundit you see on television is to be disregarded. They are wrong about <em>everything</em>.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2282482.Hubert_s_Freaks_The_Rare_Book_Dealer_the_Times_Square_Talker_and_the_Lost_Photos_of_Diane_Arbus">Hubert's Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/59200.Gregory_Gibson">Gregory Gibson</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75477876</link>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:52:58 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Combines two interesting subjects (Arbus and booksellers) into something like a long, personalized <em>New Yorker</em> piece. Endearing.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6085191.Chronic_City">Chronic City (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6404.Jonathan_Lethem">Jonathan Lethem</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:56:17 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This doesn't rate as high my favorites, but I must admit that I love how Lethem is remaining defiantly idiosyncratic. Keep on, my man.]]></body>
        
    
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