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    <updated_at>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:22:17 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Criticize J.K. Rowling if you want, but I really enjoyed reading this book and thought it brought the Harry Potter series to a dramatic and satisfying conclusion.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:58:19 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Levitt applies economic analysis (really more statistical analysis than anything else) to some new every-day problems (like teachers teaching to standardized tests) and comes up with some interesting insights.  Not everyone I've talked to loves it, but I think it's worth five stars.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:55:15 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I give this book a low four - it has some interesting material, but I wasn't particularly wowed by his writing, synthesis or additional insights.  Still, worth a read if you find the psychology of happiness interesting.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:20:50 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Yunus is an inspiring guy with inspiring ideas.  At times he seems impractical, but the world needs dreamers, and I was jazzed that he won the Nobel Prize.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:04:17 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Story written from the point of view of an autistic boy, whose voice the author captures very well - I really liked it.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:02:50 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book is fun to read but nothing particularly outstanding, in my opinion.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:01:37 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Recommended to me by my teenage sister, and a mystery probably best-suited for that demographic, but I enjoyed it too.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99139.The_Best_Short_Stories_of_Mark_Twain">The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain (Modern Library Classics)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1655.Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:57:01 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Amazing - I think Twain's genius comes through most clearly in collected short-stories form.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:36:31 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Still haven't finished, but I'm pretty sure this book is awesome.]]></body>
        
    
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