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          <body><![CDATA[A pretty different dispatcher of war, but also such incredible unsparing prose. Perhaps no more so than in this scene of a Republican trying to convert a Fascist with buttered toast:  <br/>&quot;Sometimes, instead of shouting revolutionary slogans he simply told the Fascists how much better we were ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/A%20pretty%20different%20dispatcher%20of%20war,%20but%20also%20such%20incredible%20unsparing%20prose.%20Perhaps%20no%20more%20so%20than%20in%20this%20scene%20of%20a%20Republican%20trying%20to%20convert%20a%20Fascist%20with%20buttered%20toast:%20%20%0A%22Sometimes,%20instead%20of%20shouting%20revolutionary%20slogans%20he%20simply%20told%20the%20Fascists%20how%20much%20better%20we%20were%20fed%20than%20they%20were.%20His%20account%20of%20the%20Government%20rations%20was%20apt%20to%20be%20a%20little%20imaginitive.%20'Buttered%20toast!'--you%20could%20hear%20his%20voice%20echoing%20across%20the%20lonely%20valley--'We're%20just%20sitting%20down%20to%20buttered%20toast%20over%20here!%20Lovely%20slices%20of%20buttered%20toast!'%20I%20do%20not%20doubt%20that,%20like%20the%20rest%20of%20us,%20he%20had%20not%20seen%20butter%20for%20weeks%20or%20months%20past,%20but%20in%20the%20icy%20night%20the%20news%20of%20buttered%20toast%20proabably%20set%20many%20a%20Fascist%20mouth%20watering.%20It%20even%20made%20mine%20water,%20though%20I%20knew%20he%20was%20lying.%22">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:24:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:19:07 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[An elaborate game--with Byatt-style brandishings and swollen to five hundred pages--but one better played in a bowling alley than in book club. <br/>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[Dripping in an irony of sorts, for example the whole description of the meal (like when &quot;he rose from the roast&quot; to move toward the master bed), but yes it's sad at the same time since the fact that they<br/>are prepared to try to eat the meal also gets to the reason why they will be torn ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Dripping%20in%20an%20irony%20of%20sorts,%20for%20example%20the%20whole%20description%20of%20the%20meal%20(like%20when%20%22he%20rose%20from%20the%20roast%22%20to%20move%20toward%20the%20master%20bed),%20but%20yes%20it's%20sad%20at%20the%20same%20time%20since%20the%20fact%20that%20they%0Aare%20prepared%20to%20try%20to%20eat%20the%20meal%20also%20gets%20to%20the%20reason%20why%20they%20will%20be%20torn%20apart%20by%20the%20end%20of%20the%20night.%20The%20saddest%20aspects%20of%20the%20book%20was%20that%20the%20author%20made%20the%20good%20parts%20of%20their%20relationship%20so%20believable%20and%20moving%20(like%20when%20she%20walks%20through%20the%20countryside%20to%20meet%20him);%20and%20then%20when%20he%20shows%20how%20all%20the%20things%20that%20go%20wrong%20could%20easily%20not%20have%20done.%20I%20really%20felt%20like%20there%20was%20a%20good%20way%20out%20of%20their%20situation%20that%20he%20shows%20you,%20and%20he%20makes%20you%20believe%20both%20in%20the%20possibility%20of%20things%20working%20out%20and%20in%20how%20easy%20it%20is%20for%20them%20not%20to.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70069.My_Past_and_Thoughts_The_Memoirs_of_Alexander_Herzen">My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/39451.Alexander_Herzen">Alexander Herzen</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:42:28 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522424.Saving_Agnes_A_Novel">Saving Agnes: A Novel (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/46051.Rachel_Cusk">Rachel Cusk</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:23:39 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The type of book you read nonstop but don't remember a word of once you've look up, dazed. Like reading your horoscope in all the magazines. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110091.True_History_of_the_Kelly_Gang">True History of the Kelly Gang (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22595.Peter_Carey">Peter Carey</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:37:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Written in the language of an almost illiterate outlaw, Jack Maggs. Almost. Carey's feat of writing is in pouring everything he has to say into an unintelligible voice that grips and gropes, as if punctuation doesn't matter.  ]]></body>
        
    
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