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    <updated_at>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:33:06 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Sounds like a book I should read--and a book I will be grateful to have read. I have mixed feelings about the title. On the one hand, it's certainly an attention getter; on the other, it may put off (and prejudice) some of those who most need to read the book. I've heard John Dean interviewed a number of times over the past year and have always found what he had to say sensible and stimulating.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1054554.On_the_Road_With_Joseph_Smith_An_Author_s_Diary">On the Road With Joseph Smith: An Author's Diary (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/138368.Richard_L_Bushman">Richard L. Bushman</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:12:11 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A short but fascinating book by an eminent historian (Bancroft prizewinner, emeritus Columbia University professor--also was my stake president when I first went to Harvard). It's mainly in the form of a diary he wrote after the publication of <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236609.Joseph_Smith_Rough_Stone_Rolling" title="Joseph Smith  Rough Stone Rolling by Richard L. Bushman">Rough Stone Rolling</a></em>, his biography of Joseph Smith. 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    <updated_at>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:24:24 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I've never read the book, but I've always remembered my mother's comment that the cast of characters includes no children. I think that comment was an implied critique of Rand's philosophy. I've got all other sorts of negative associations with the book because of what I've heard about Rand's ideas--but to be fair (and to test out my mother's comment), I really need to read the book.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164154.A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz">A Canticle for Leibowitz (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/95345.Walter_M_Miller_Jr_">Walter M. Miller Jr.</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:42:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I just finished this book, which was recommended by my son Rob. It's a remarkable book, well written, imaginative, deeply thought provoking. Though often classified as science fiction, it really transcends that genre. The term &quot;speculative fiction&quot; works better: the book imagines a post-ap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/I%20just%20finished%20this%20book,%20which%20was%20recommended%20by%20my%20son%20Rob.%20It's%20a%20remarkable%20book,%20well%20written,%20imaginative,%20deeply%20thought%20provoking.%20Though%20often%20classified%20as%20science%20fiction,%20it%20really%20transcends%20that%20genre.%20The%20term%20%22speculative%20fiction%22%20works%20better:%20the%20book%20imagines%20a%20post-apocalyptic%20future%20in%20three%20stages,%20but%20with%20recurring%20themes%20and%20symbols.%20Besides%20presenting,%20often%20with%20subtle%20humor%20and%20biting%20irony,%20a%20number%20of%20striking%20characters%20and%20incidents,%20the%20book%20is%20drenched%20with%20philosophical,%20ethical,%20and%20religious%20implications,%20and%20comments%20(through%20the%20events%20and%20the%20characters)%20on%20science,%20technology,%20politics,%20history,%20and%20lots%20of%20other%20things.%20The%20author%20skillfully%20depicts%20individual%20stories%20but%20sets%20them%20in%20a%20large-scale%20global%20and%20historical%20context%20so%20that%20the%20drama%20involves%20the%20fate%20of%20civilizations%20and%20even%20of%20humanity,%20as%20well%20as%20of%20individuals.%20%0D%0A%0D%0AFor%20me,%20the%20author's%20apparent%20point%20of%20view%20became%20a%20little%20too%20obvious%20near%20the%20end,%20but%20for%20the%20most%20part%20the%20ideas%20in%20the%20book%20are%20dramatized,%20not%20preached,%20allowing%20readers%20to%20grapple%20with%20the%20ideas%20without%20feeling%20pressured%20toward%20a%20particular%20conclusion.%20Another%20intriguing%20thing%20about%20the%20book,%20from%20my%20point%20of%20view,%20is%20that%20it%20begins%20with%20a%20character%20named%20%22Brother%20Francis%20Gerard%20of%20Utah%22%20(I%20live%20in%20Utah),%20associated%20with%20a%20monastery%20which%20seeks%20to%20preserve%20learning%20after%20a%20period%20of%20nuclear%20destruction%20and%20subsequent%20social%20chaos.%20I%20look%20forward%20to%20the%20sequel%20%3Ci%3E%5Bb:Saint%20Leibowitz%20and%20the%20Wild%20Horse%20Woman%7C258936%7CSaint%20Leibowitz%20and%20the%20Wild%20Horse%20Woman%7CWalter%20M.%20Miller%20Jr.%7Chttp:%2F%2Fphoto.goodreads.com%2Fbooks%2F1173214246s%2F258936.jpg%7C250974%5D,%3C%2Fi%3E%20which%20apparently%20further%20explores%20events%20taking%20place%20between%20parts%202%20and%203%20of%20the%20earlier%20book.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/323355.The_Book_of_Mormon_Another_Testament_of_Jesus_Christ">The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ (Official Edition)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1367163.The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter_day_Saints">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>]]></action_text>
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