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    <updated_at>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:31:25 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:17:28 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close reminded me in several ways of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night. In the latter, the protagonist is Christopher Boone, a 15 year old with Aspergers living in Swindon, trying to figure out the mystery of who killed Mrs Shears' dog. In Foer'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80938833">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6877044-superfreakonomics">SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/798.Steven_D_Levitt">Steven D. Levitt</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:11:42 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I loved Freakonomics and I'm pleased to report that Superfreakonomics is an equally rollicking read. There are tons of these econs for the layman-type books on the market these days, such as The Armchair Economist and the Undercover Economist. I'd recommend Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics to anyo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82272270">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2195464.What_I_Talk_About_When_I_Talk_About_Running">What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3354.Haruki_Murakami">Haruki Murakami</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:56:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3486989.Lolita">Lolita (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5152.Vladimir_Nabokov">Vladimir Nabokov</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:49:10 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Hands down one of the most brilliant openings to a novel.  &quot;Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.&quot; (Alright, so this is actually the third sentence of chapt 1, not the first. But still.)<br/><br/>I'd bee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80938851">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33263.South_of_the_Border_West_of_the_Sun_A_Novel">South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3354.Haruki_Murakami">Haruki Murakami</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:55:52 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Another gorgeous novel by Murakami.  Like Norwegian Wood, the prose in South of the Border, West of the Sun is gentle and lyrical; the phrases almost caress you as you're reading them.  But where Norwegian Wood dealt with the ambiguities and complexities of Toru's relationship with Naoko and Midori,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79469804">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11297.Norwegian_Wood">Norwegian Wood (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3354.Haruki_Murakami">Haruki Murakami</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:51:48 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[How can I describe the experience of reading Murakami's Norwegian Wood? There are some books that make you feel you're being sucked into the novel, where the words on the page wrap themselves around you and draw you into the page. Neil Gaiman's works come to mind. With Norwegian Wood, it's like you'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79379718">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/430146.Guns_Germs_and_Steel_A_short_history_of_everybody_for_the_last_13_000_years">Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/256.Jared_Diamond">Jared Diamond</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:44:29 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Let me start off by saying that Guns, Germs and Steel was a great read.  The book attempts to discover the &quot;ultimate causes&quot; behind the world as we know it today - one that is dominated by Western superpowers.  Even attempting to answer such a question would be a Herculean task and Diamond...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79376728">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1478720.Touch_Wood_Confessions_of_an_Accidental_Porn_Director">Touch Wood: Confessions of an Accidental Porn Director (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1436.Anonymous">Anonymous</a>]]></action_text>
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