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    <updated_at>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:51:02 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A relaxed, well-wrought, charming novel that pulled me along for two days as I tore through it. I like <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/296961.Paul_Auster" title="Paul Auster">Paul Auster</a>, but even if I didn't, this would be an easy book to like.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1782543.A_People_s_History_of_American_Empire">A People's History of American Empire (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1899.Howard_Zinn">Howard Zinn</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:42:17 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Konopacki and Buhle do Zinn a giant favor by excerpting and condensing his seminal (and lengthy) <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767.People_s_History_of_the_United_States_1492_to_Present_P_S_" title="People's History of the United States  1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn">A People's History of the United States</a> into a manageable—and fun, if &quot;fun&quot; can be applied to a tale of systemic oppression—introduction. It's been years since I read A People's History of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53143670">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/773858.Born_Standing_Up_A_Comic_s_Life">Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7103.Steve_Martin">Steve Martin</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:38:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Nothing too exciting, but a short, pleasant read.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168668.Catch_22">Catch-22 (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3167.Joseph_Heller">Joseph Heller</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:57:16 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidential_Adventures_in_the_Culinary_Underbelly">Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (updated edition)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1124.Anthony_Bourdain">Anthony Bourdain</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:25:01 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Its not hard to see why <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidential_Adventures_in_the_Culinary_Underbelly_updated_edition_" title="Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (updated edition) by Anthony Bourdain">Kitchen Confidential</a> launched Bourdain's career as a celebrity chef. He writes effortlessly, bringing the reader into the kitchen—and the lifestyle that goes along with it—without artifice, flattery or ego. The only downside to this book: it's dangerous to read on an empt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42961071">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 1 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81948.The_E_Myth_Revisited_Why_Most_Small_Businesses_Don_t_Work_and_What_to_Do_About_It">The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3416.Michael_E_Gerber">Michael E. Gerber</a>]]></action_text>
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          <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81948.The_E_Myth_Revisited_Why_Most_Small_Businesses_Don_t_Work_and_What_to_Do_About_It" title="The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber">The E-Myth</a> is of a class of airport traveler business self-help book that's ordinarily so far outside my orbit that I usually don't even have to avoid it. When two intelligent, trusted friends independently recommended this 20-year-old book within a week or two of each other, I eagerly picked it up....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42960888">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222472.Halting_State">Halting State (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8794.Charles_Stross">Charles Stross</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:41:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Stross crams a lot into a small book, and the three rotating narrators speaking in the second-person only add to the confusion.  Halting state is a kinetic mystery yarn and probably rewards re-reading, and his vision of the future is worth listening to, but the book some of the  less readable specul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36599092">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88071.The_Last_Colony">The Last Colony (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4763.John_Scalzi">John Scalzi</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:19:35 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Solid, kinetic, fun, and a little claustrophobic--confining the story to just three lead characters keeps it tight, but makes it feel a little small in scope. Scalzi's discipline is impressive: he metes out the literary pyrotechnics at exactly the right pace, the and he does a great job of introduci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36107084">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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