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          <body><![CDATA[Eating Animals is a well-researched, well-told expose of factory farming in America and the world. Anyone who isn't already making deliberately considered choices about food ought to read this book. Just a few  things I learned in Eating Animals:<br/><br/>· More than ten billion land animals are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77844437">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[I hope you do read it eventually, Sarah, because I'll be really interested to see what you think. I've got some other books on the pile right now, but A Supposedly Fun Thing is the next DFW on my list.<br/><br/>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[After having read and loved Infinite Jest, I really wanted to like this book. It had its moments, the best being the final brief interview, but more often than not David Foster Wallace's trademark disregard for convention and penchant for unrestrained digression combined with largely bleak and depre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75878239">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[It's like drug addiction. I keep looking for that original high I experienced with Douglas Coupland back in Generation X and Microserfs, but he keeps right on not giving it to me. Great serve, no follow-through.[ <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/sciencefictionreviews/fr/generation-a.htm">full review</a> ]<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74874458">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759.Infinite_Jest_A_Novel">Infinite Jest: A Novel (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4339.David_Foster_Wallace">David Foster Wallace</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:58:22 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest is a labyrinthine mass of plot lines encompassing themes of addiction and recovery, popular entertainment, and tennis. It is a vast and sprawling novel whose challenge is not in the mere heft of 981 pages plus another 100 pages of endnotes. The challenge of readi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60636026">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6359434-and-another-thing">And Another Thing... (Hitchhiker's Guide, #6)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10896.Eoin_Colfer">Eoin Colfer</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:36:35 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Eoin Colfer does a reasonably good job of approximating the satire and style of Douglas Adams without parodying it. While not exactly inspired, this was a fun read, and I recommend it to other Hitchhiker's fans, unless you're one of those fans vehemently opposed to Colfer's having written and publis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73542619">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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