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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:33:34 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:19:25 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5161225.Young_Liars_Vol_1_Daydream_Believer">Young Liars Vol. 1: Daydream Believer (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/52924.David_Lapham">David Lapham</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:34:10 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[a likeable, off-kilter, rampaging female protagonist.  an oddball group of friends (who mostly hate each other).  a psychotic rich family.  punk music.  drugs.  castration.  violence.  sex.  what's not to like?  the illustrations are great.  the plot is bizarre.  the characters loathsome, yet likeab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80125809">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4927961.AIR_Vol_1_Letters_from_Lost_Countries">AIR Vol. 1: Letters from Lost Countries (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/815259.G_Willow_Wilson">G. Willow Wilson</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:20:21 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[the premise is, at first, intriguing.  the illustrations are pleasing.  but the story could have gone <em>that</em> far, but went THAT far.  a little too much suspension of disbelief to be enjoyed.  i could have ridden about 2/3 as far as it went.  but that last 1/3 filled me with disdain.  ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/350507.Give_a_Boy_a_Gun">Give a Boy a Gun (Mass Market Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/31468.Todd_Strasser">Todd Strasser</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:11:02 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[whatever i think about this book, the format and execution are unique enough to merit a read.  the strengths of the book are also its weakness.  the gathering of interviews about the shooting and the shooters is sometimes engaging, sometimes not.  the problem is that some of the passages are much lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80123669">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6491219-unknown-soldier-vol-1">Unknown Soldier Vol. 1: Haunted House (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/63222.Joshua_Dysart">Joshua Dysart</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:00:01 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[this is the kind of book that begs discussion.  a highly intriguing, mysterious premise.  lots of violence.  a controversial take on a modern war.  it's not easy to read, surely, with child soldiers, rape and violent rampaging.  still, it's interesting, if fucked up.  intriguing parallels between th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80122677">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6439641-luv-ya-bunches">Luv Ya Bunches (Luv Ya Bunches, #1)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/157676.Lauren_Myracle">Lauren Myracle</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:47:41 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[should i be admitting i read this?  after the Scholastic &quot;lesbian moms&quot; controversy, i couldn't resist.  it's accessible.  mostly entertaining.  sometimes torturous.  sweet.  mildly subversive.  the diverse cast is seemingly contrived, but it doesn't come off that way in the reading.  the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80121551">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2999495.Tales_from_Outer_Suburbia">Tales from Outer Suburbia (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/38954.Shaun_Tan">Shaun Tan</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:46:43 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[on the surface, flipping through this book, it's brilliant.  the stories, however, each left me unsatisfied.  Tan almost went there, then he didn't.  it reminded me of Kelly Link, turning mundane settings fantastic.  but Tan's storytelling doesn't quite pull it off.  his art, though, is fucking fant...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76502233">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61448.Luba_Three_Daughters_A_Love_Rockets_Book">Luba: Three Daughters: A Love &amp; Rockets Book (Complete Love and Rockets, Volume 23)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5124.Gilbert_Hernandez">Gilbert Hernandez</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:37:17 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[nowhere near as compelling as the other post-Palomar stories.  Beto definitely reached the end of where these characters can go (assuming they stay in LA).  a fun superhero segment is tempered by the sad demise of one of my favorite characters.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6545260-aya">Aya: The Secrets Come Out: Volume Three (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/177734.Marguerite_Abouet">Marguerite Abouet</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:25:20 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[this is the first volume of Aya that i truly liked.  the slowly-simmering problems, infidelities, and secret relationships are all brought to the fore.  the same characters are present, but somehow this volume is more captivating.  a beauty pageant, second wives, queer love, money problems and phila...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76499112">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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