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    	<span id="reviewTextContainer78936166" style="">&quot;<span id="freeTextContainerreview_rating78936166" class="reviewText">This book belongs on my new list called: &quot;Protagonists who are completely useless and whiny.&quot; Bella, our heroine, spends most of the book either pining or over-reacting. Perhaps in the context of &quot;Yo, vampires are real, glittery and wi<a href="#" onclick="Element.show('freeTextreview_rating78936166'); Element.hide('freeTextContainerreview_rating78936166'); return false;">...more</a></span>
<span id="freeTextreview_rating78936166" style="display:none" class="reviewText">This book belongs on my new list called: &quot;Protagonists who are completely useless and whiny.&quot; Bella, our heroine, spends most of the book either pining or over-reacting. Perhaps in the context of &quot;Yo, vampires are real, glittery and will eat your face,&quot; some of the over-reactions are understandable, but come on! I suppose I could have just forgotten what it's like to be an irritating and burdensome teenage vampire fangirl, which is why this book is also on my new list: &quot;Inscrutable teenage protagonists that somehow defy well-deserved gory vampire face-eatings.&quot;<br/><br/>That said, it really is an attractive travel piece for Washington. &quot;Come see Washington: it's wet and crappy except for the vampires and werewolves.&quot;<a href="#" onclick="Element.hide('freeTextreview_rating78936166'); Element.show('freeTextContainerreview_rating78936166'); return false;">(less)</a></span>
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    		<![CDATA[Caroline added 'King of the Benighted']]>
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    			  A tale of torture and poetry from Iran. I lack  background for the details of the revolution, but some things are universal. Reminds me of &quot;One for the Road&quot; by Harold Pinter.<br/><br/>52/52/09
    			
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    		<![CDATA[Caroline added 'American Salvage']]>
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    			  Well told stories of the failed blue-collar world of the Midwest. Ms. Campbell achieves a remarkable cohesion in the collection - which surprised me as the longest story is still under30 pages. <br/><br/>51/52/2009
    			
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    		<![CDATA[Caroline added 'SuperFreakonomics: Tales of Altruism, Terrorism, and Poorly Paid Prostitutes']]>
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    			  Wow. Major Disappointment for fans of the first. No more cool and interesting data analyses, no more ah-ha moments. Just some cool but recycled stories, and some very nebulous &quot;solutions&quot; to global warming. <br/><br/><br/>50/52/2009
    			
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    		<![CDATA[Caroline added 'Matchless: A Christmas Story']]>
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    		<![CDATA[Caroline added 'Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction']]>
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    			  Oh! That voice! These stories, admittedly unpolished, have that same crazy, distinctive spark that we love so well. This would be an unfortunate introduction to the master, but for die hard Vonnegut fans it is one last hit. <br/><br/>48/52/09
    			
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    		<![CDATA[Caroline added 'Baltimore: Or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire']]>
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    			  Yummy gothic tales. I bought this in my H1N1 bookstore trip - you know, stocking up before you get dreadfully sick. I kinda wish I had waited to read it until febrile, as I bet it would be even creepier then. <br/><br/>47/52/2009
    			
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  		LOVED THESE!<br/><br/>If you liked the books, I do recommend the movie - Something I practically never get to say! It's the same art and story, so you'd want to wait a bit after reading. <br/><br/>
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    		<![CDATA[Caroline added 'Say You're One of Them']]>
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    			  So I picked this up after the nyt review, and didn't finish it because after the first 2 stories, I found the rendering of the dialect to be painful and the writing flat. I think often authors often use kid characters to cover flat writing. I finished it to see what Oprah was so excited about, but it did not improve with more familiarity. <br/><br/>It's not that I need character development in short stories. It's just that reading unremittingly brutal images without any character development feels voyeristic.<br/><br/>46/52/2009
    			
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