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    <updated_at>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:09:10 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I am glad that I didn't grow up in this family, but nonetheless a very funny read.  My favorite part of the book was when Jacob Green had to write his thank you notes after his Bar Mitzvah.  I laughed so hard, I actually had to stop reading it for a bit.  ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:46:41 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A modern day combination of Phillip Roth and Woody Allen?  I don't think so.  Go through the life and times of an Ivy league slacker who works at a casting agency by day and prowls for cheap sexual encounters at night.  Amidst the times of twenty something angst you will find some memorable scenes, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10275927">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:14:29 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[If you are a Muslim and want to have a cold hard look at your faith and the need to reform it, read this book. An excellent hard look at the problems with Islam today honestly told by one of the hosts of &quot;queer nation&quot; out of Canada.  Irshad Manji, you go girl!!! This book is the most chec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10054065">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:11:14 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I have learned that you cannot disagree with somebody yet defend their right to their beliefs and opinions.  In fact I think the biggest mistake that the western world is making with dealing with the Islamic world is just that.  We aspire to freedom, allow people to come into our countries, and feel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10065852">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:01:48 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[More &quot;mom fiction&quot; catering to the limousine liberals and middle classes. Not as good as the &quot;Kite Runner&quot;]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:59:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Imagine reading Naruda in prose with nonstop 4 page paragraphs a la Joyce, with a translator who might not have a firm grasp of English, an you think to yourself, no way am I going to read this!  But persevere and you will see imagery that parallels to the Holocaust throughout this book. A group of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11367665">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:51:36 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I am not a big fan of &quot;Mom Fiction&quot; and that is the specific sub genre that I would put this book in. The strong point of this work was the style that it was written in.  Take an 80 year old Russian immigrant who suffers from Dementia and watch her have flashbacks to her youth at the Hermi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11367458">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2178544.The_Much_Too_Promised_Land_America_s_Elusive_Search_for_Arab_Israeli_Peace">The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/338443.Aaron_David_Miller">Aaron David Miller</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:42:25 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is what I am currently reading.  I could never make it in the diplomatic corps of ANY country. Personally, I have a great difficulty in rewarding peoples peace and appeasement for bad behavior.  That pretty much was the message coming from Aaron David Miller.  Stay tuned, I will have a full boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10039676">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:09:02 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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