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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150467.The_Boilerplate_Rhino_Nature_in_the_Eye_of_the_Beholder">The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/32307.David_Quammen">David Quammen</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:45:41 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is a disjointed compendium of unrelated and outdated essays. It’s essentially Quammen going through his files and trying to make a few bucks off his old stuff.<br/><br/>I don’t blame Quammen for this by any means. The essays were all new to me, and Quammen’s warmed-over repeats are bett...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48948291">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:13:59 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book because it apparently won all sorts of awards. But I have to say, it did not really impress me very much. It's about how curiosity museums are a vanishing but important institution. The author mainly describes a particular such museum in Los Angeles. He claims that this place i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48948090">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:45:14 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:57:12 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Wow, I remember reading that back in ... high school? I think I'll also re-read it, thanks for the tip!]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219780.Sin_in_the_Second_City_Madams_Ministers_Playboys_and_the_Battle_for_America_s_Soul">Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19683.Karen_Abbott">Karen Abbott</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:56:03 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[t’s definitely a picture of a fascinating era, when cities were new and the rules were just being established. It’s obviously heavily researched and filled with detail about its subject. But I do wish it had more scope, actually.<br/><br/>The author touches briefly on the story of boxer Jack J...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10722853">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776215.Leviathan_The_History_of_Whaling_in_America">Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/300313.Eric_Jay_Dolin">Eric Jay Dolin</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:55:48 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A highly readable account, with an excellent combination of sweeping scope (the entire history period of pre-Columbian times to the early 20th Century) and narrow focus (specifically focusing on the whaling industry, different forms of whaling, famous whaling stories, etc). It’s especially gratify...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10722893">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14318.Chronicles_Volume_One">Chronicles: Volume One (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8898.Bob_Dylan">Bob Dylan</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:39:01 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[While parts of this book are evocative and interesting, I didn't find it as entrancing as most reviewers evidently did. For me, the book's main weakness, I think, is the disjointed nature of the bits and pieces. I would have preferred to read a more straightforward narrative rather than the jumpy, d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8307788">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/259028.The_Devil_in_the_White_City_Murder_Magic_and_Madness_at_the_Fair_that_Changed_America">The Devil in the White City:  Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5869.Erik_Larson">Erik Larson</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:36:33 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Creepy, but not overly so. Strange juxtaposition of &quot;true crime&quot; story embedded in a larger historical context mainly works.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/586768.George_DeWolfe_s_Digital_Photography_Fine_Print_Workshop">George DeWolfe's Digital Photography Fine Print Workshop (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/319807.George_DeWolfe">George DeWolfe</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:35:17 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Esoteric, impractical, and ultimately unhelpful.]]></body>
        
    
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