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    <updated_at>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:50:44 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I picked this up because I had to read another book of his for a class last year and really liked it (&quot;In the Land of Israel&quot;); this one doesn't disappoint, either. It's a story about a doomed relationship between two young Israelis: the idealistic Hannah and the prosaic Michael. More broa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66661939">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75400.Slow_Man">Slow Man (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4128.J_M_Coetzee">J.M. Coetzee</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:42:24 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I think that I'm too young for this book -- I can't really say how well this captures the experience of aging. But it's probably short-sighted to see this book as simply an instruction manual for geezers; it's also about more universal issues of identity, change, and inauthenticity -- themes of stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65374657">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11297.Norwegian_Wood">Norwegian Wood (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3354.Haruki_Murakami">Haruki Murakami</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:35:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I would have loved this when I was 18 -- the part of me that would have gone in for it died along with my love of the Juliana Theory, I guess. It also would have been appealing to read about a bookish and apparently unattractive student, who is for some reason absolutely irresistible to every woman ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62206320">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133394.Our_Man_in_Havana_An_Entertainment">Our Man in Havana: An Entertainment (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2533.Graham_Greene">Graham Greene</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:12:24 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A great beach read for people who don't like things that are normally classified as beach reads. A comedy spy story with a po-mo twist, which is both &quot;an entertainment&quot; and much more than that. What's not to love?]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2574860.The_Lazarus_Project">The Lazarus Project (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/88386.Aleksandar_Hemon">Aleksandar Hemon</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:52:16 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I thought this was amazing: hyper-complex without being showy and multicultural in a smart/relevant way.  There are lots of overlapping stories which interact in unexpected ways, while somehow seeming compact and  self-contained instead of sprawling; as the name implies, the stories are resurrection...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58648547">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 1 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328854.Motherless_Brooklyn">Motherless Brooklyn (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6404.Jonathan_Lethem">Jonathan Lethem</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:26:48 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It is very rare for me to despise a novel like I despised this one. I don't even know where to begin. As the title and cover indicate, it aims at some sort of evocation of Brooklyn, which I suppose is necessary so that Lethem can continue to be the Brooklyn institution that he is. The problem is tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58225718">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88077.The_Magic_Mountain">The Magic Mountain (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19405.Thomas_Mann">Thomas Mann</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 26 May 2009 19:19:49 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is a hard book to rate -- who am I to give a mere three stars to a classic like this? But it has to be done: this is simply not a very good novel. There are a few engaging subplots, and flashes of humanity, but these get destroyed in the steamroller of Mann's symbolic vision: each person repres...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57441864">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8146.The_Stories_of_Vladimir_Nabokov">The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5152.Vladimir_Nabokov">Vladimir Nabokov</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 14 May 2009 20:29:46 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/109830.Man_s_Fate">Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/63564.Andr_Malraux">André Malraux</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 14 May 2009 20:28:28 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This was interesting enough, but somewhat over the top: ham-handed and without the slightest hint of humor or irony (hence Nabokov's hatred of this novel and all of Malraux's work). On one level, it's a pretty gripping adventure story set in revolutionary China, full of, you know, espionage and intr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55599143">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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