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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/843068.This_Is_Reggae_Music_The_Story_of_Jamaica_s_Music">This Is Reggae Music: The Story of Jamaica's Music (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/376190.Lloyd_Bradley">Lloyd Bradley</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:07:53 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I didn't know a lot about reggae music past Bob Marley until I start collecting Trojan records.  I figured I'd learn about all that music that came before Bob Marley.  That said - most of what I know about Bob Marley I learned from Vh1's Behind the Music.  <br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:04:28 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Points taken away as Max's sense of humor has a one two punch something and it just seems crass.  <br/><br/>Points awarded as the crassness is awesome.  I want to meet Tucker Max just one time, from afar.  It is bad that having someone like Max on this earth makes me happier and more likely to bel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26115507">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:02:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I. Love. Chelsea. Handler.  <br/>I don't have the guts to live a life like so I love reading about hers.  Especially with her dry statements that are hilarious - it's not even her sense of humor, it's who she is as a person.  I'd want to be her if I didn't know that's not really who I am.  (Does th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26115361">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69136.The_Book_of_Lost_Things">The Book of Lost Things (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/38951.John_Connolly">John Connolly</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:58:40 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The Book of Lost Things was one of the best books I read n 2007.  Like Jonathan Strange, the story is engrossing and has an odd other-worldliness that seems reasonable and fantastic.  I have never read James Connelly's mystery novels (I know and I'm the biggest mystery fan) and now I'm not sure I wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26115072">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11012.Dubliners">Dubliners (World's Classics)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5144.James_Joyce">James Joyce</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:54:59 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Confession - I haven't totally re-read the whole of The Dubliners since Junior Year English Lit.  BUT I did reread The Dead this holiday season.  Something about the coming winter, and that I had off every Friday in December, lead me back to the story.  Not sure why.  <br/><br/>Playing the word-as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26114667">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5114.Raise_High_the_Roof_Beam_Carpenters_and_Seymour_An_Introduction">Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/819789.J_D_Salinger">J.D. Salinger</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:50:21 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77532.Nine_Stories">Nine Stories (Mass Market Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/819789.J_D_Salinger">J.D. Salinger</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:50:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[After reading Franny and Zooey, any book with the Glass family - I immediately had to read it!  And Salinger does not disappoint.  The tenderness and the humor that the family has towards one another - it didn't have the 50s era hangover that affronted me when reading Catcher.  <br/>This book is sp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26114104">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/518803.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye">The Catcher in the Rye (Mass Market Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/819789.J_D_Salinger">J.D. Salinger</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:46:24 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Tried to back to it a few years ago and found it overrated.  Stop whining Holden.  Three stars only as I liked it when I was 15.  ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5113.Franny_and_Zooey">Franny and Zooey (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/819789.J_D_Salinger">J.D. Salinger</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:45:30 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I still remember the feeling of wonder when I reached the end of this book.  I know it's the popular choice (and probably because of the paternalistic nature of our society) but Franny and Zooey leaves Catcher in the Rye in it's dust.  <br/><br/>One of the best books I've read. <br/>This book goe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26113859">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42155.Something_Blue">Something Blue (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13370.Emily_Giffin">Emily Giffin</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:42:22 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book made me cry.  The only other book I can remember making me cry was Sounder.  That was a sad cry.  Something Blue was a happy cry ;)<br/><br/>I won't say why I cried - it's a surprise ending - between the journey of Rachel and Darcy and where they end up by the end of the book, I was fill...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26113490">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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