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    <updated_at>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:02:11 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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          <body><![CDATA[Eggers does it again. The protagonist of this fun, quirky novel is the most authentically child-like I've ever encountered in literature.]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[Thanks for your generous reading and let us all wish upon a star that Bambi regains the coherence she displayed whilst penning this memoir.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 25 May 2009 00:36:31 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Saunders is like Vonnegut for the 21st century only maybe better. Secular humanism with a humorous twist and a soupcon of delirious daffiness.]]></body>
        
    
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