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    <updated_at>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:26:30 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Pretty decent read for the most part. But at the end, it seemed very &quot;oh, crap, time to wrap it up in two cheesy pages.&quot;]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:25:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This account started out so dry and lifeless that I was longing for Charlotte Simmons. Couldn't get through it.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37819.The_God_of_Small_Things">The God of Small Things (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6134.Arundhati_Roy">Arundhati Roy</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:40:50 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29059.Choke">Choke (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2546.Chuck_Palahniuk">Chuck Palahniuk</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:48:28 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[While I was reading the book, I felt like it was dragging and not particularly good. But at the end. Everything ties together so neatly and nothing is left out and I am sold.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/533099.False_Prophet_Field_Notes_from_the_Punk_Underground">False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground (Music Culture)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/294692.Steven_Taylor">Steven Taylor</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:00:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Great, brainy writer, but just not as relevant as other punk books.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 1 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240288.The_Mobius_Strip_Dr_August_Mobius_s_Marvelous_Band_in_Mathematics_Games_Literature_Art_Technology_and_Cosmology">The Mobius Strip: Dr. August Mobius's Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art, Technology, and Cosmology (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/381.Clifford_A_Pickover">Clifford A. Pickover</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:56:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:48:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Eh. Felt very flat.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252941.The_Torn_Skirt">The Torn Skirt (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/147753.Rebecca_Godfrey">Rebecca Godfrey</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:39:27 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I expected more from the ending but the rest kept me interested enough to keep reading. It was a very restless book and I didn't feel the quiet that was supposed to have been achieved near the end.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113348.The_Red_Tent">The Red Tent (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/626222.Anita_Diamant">Anita Diamant</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:48:22 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Not the sort of book I usually read. I find lists of family names boring. But here it served custom and gave color to the story. It was a very tame recount of a story that could have been very wild but it was just descriptive enough to keep me interested.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:59:23 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Odd. Some descriptions went on too long, others were entirely missing when I wanted them. There was not enough connection between the narrator and the story she was telling. But I really liked this portrayal of falling in love. It was honest and not sappy.]]></body>
        
    
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