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    <updated_at>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:25:09 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:20:39 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Thompson shook up the press corps covering the presidential campaigns in 1972. He has an incisive wit and a worthy take on the candidates and the press that cover them.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:19:45 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book contains a few paragraphs of some of the most beautiful prose ever transcribed in English. For all the ugliness in Thompson's life and his fictional world, these passages are his legacy.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:17:29 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book changed the way I thought. I was lucky enough to read it just as I was developing a brain capable of exercising the critical capacities for which Sagan spent so much of his life advocating.<br/><br/>If you want a guide for detecting flim-flam, tomfoolery, hijinks, and propaganda, this is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38176874">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:15:31 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Another funny read from Copeland. This book kept me company on a series of long plane rides. The computer programmers at the heart of the novel of surprisingly fleshed out for a comic novel. Their tics, intelligence and social awkwardness make them endearing.<br/><br/>Much of the dialogue in the b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38176663">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:07:57 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:17:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Interesting conception of life in the future based on immortality, cloning and a peer-to-peer meritocracy. Funny lines, good narrator, basic, but fast-paced plot line. <br/><br/>Good, solid sci-fi!]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14376.Einstein_s_Dreams">Einstein's Dreams (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8933.Alan_Lightman">Alan Lightman</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:06:10 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Short chapters conceive Einstein's home at the time of his publication of his theory of general relativity under different scenarios of time's dimensionality. Short vignettes explore worlds in which time flows backward, the future is known, time moves in a circle, people can move through time at wil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1301202">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:03:27 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The only poet I really like. Focuses on the character and lives of the American people and the nation's physical beauty.<br/><br/>My favorite:<br/><br/>Carl Sandburg (1878–1967).  Chicago Poems.  1916.<br/> <br/>137. I Am the People, the Mob<br/> <br/> <br/>I AM the people—the mob—the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3938562">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:01:18 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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