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  		Amy,<br/><br/>You apparently have excellent distaste in literature. It's hard to see this book as anything other than a cynical gimmick to separate me from my $20. Fortunately for me, I got my copy out of a recycling bin.<br/><br/>For me, the most intriguing issue in this book is the question of where those itty-bitty sneakers came from. I suspect that they were stitched together by the itty-bitty fingers of itty-bitty sweat-shop workers in the Marshall Islands. Maybe somebody should give them a copy of this book because their cheese has definitely been relocated.
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    	<span id="reviewTextContainer14173759" style="">&quot;<span id="freeTextContainerreview_rating14173759" class="reviewText">When I saw a hot hispanic girl reading this book I used it as a conversation starter.  <br/>  &quot;What are you reading?&quot; <br/>She opened up and told me it was the best book she had read in a long time and it really helped her in her social, <a href="#" onclick="Element.show('freeTextreview_rating14173759'); Element.hide('freeTextContainerreview_rating14173759'); return false;">...more</a></span>
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  		<em>I don't think anyone would ever really TiVo a Nascar race. Your whole argument shattered for me after that one.</em><br/><br/>I suppose, then, that it is a good thing that the Nascar-race quip came at the <strong>end</strong> of my whole argument.<br/><br/>I will defer to your judgment as to whether stock-car races are adequate TiVo fodder. 
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    		<![CDATA[Brian added 'The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men's Style']]>
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  		I like Checkov and Turgenev, but Tolstoy's never quite boiled by borscht. <br/><br/>(I really have nothing intelligent to add...I just wanted to get that &quot;borscht&quot; comment in...)
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