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    <updated_at>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:14:46 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Look, you and I both know that the inherent meaning of the human condition is disintegrating into the form of the semiology used to describe that condition, and that Lacan's approach to Freudian dream analysis insists we examine the form of the dream and not some chimerical subconscious meaning. But...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31059270">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:21:52 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I like existential panic. French novelists appear to like existential panic. Do I, therefore, like French novelists? In my left hand I hold long, looping sentences and the frank confrontation between meaning and modernity. In my right, I hold a near-total absence of concrete imagery and a plot the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29416247">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:19:00 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515998.Shakespeare_s_Kitchen_Stories">Shakespeare's Kitchen: Stories (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/89781.Lore_Segal">Lore Segal</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:30:20 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book is a collection of linked short stories -- and shouldn't there be a term for such a work at this point? -- and man, some of them are really, really good. I refer specifically to &quot;The Talk in Eliza's Kitchen,&quot; which contains maybe the best last sentence I've read all year. I was a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24809200">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:44:31 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book violates pretty much every principle you learned in writing school; it's about hypereducated twentysomethings who don't seem to have jobs or fixed locations, and who primarily engage in speculation about what might have happened between them and their ex-girlfriends. That's not what fictio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24804435">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28636.The_Curtain_An_Essay_in_Seven_Parts">The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6343.Milan_Kundera">Milan Kundera</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:13:13 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Milan Kundera writes a more enjoyable book about novels than he does a novel, that's for sure. Although there are fewer hot, imaginary eastern European girls.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:16:08 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:22:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Like Huckleberry Finn with no Jim and no river.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12497.No_Country_for_Old_Men">No Country for Old Men (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4178.Cormac_McCarthy">Cormac McCarthy</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:20:17 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[So this book is awesome, as many people have already pointed out. I think Cormac McCarthy is a safe inclusion in the canon from the otherwise blighted 1980-to-This Morning era, so we might as well sit around and speculate about his major themes. Like The Road, this book makes much of the idea of a g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5091401">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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