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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:23:35 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:22:53 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:21:59 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Great read. Tough to teach.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44184.Monster">Monster (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13291.Walter_Dean_Myers">Walter Dean Myers</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:19:34 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Great book for young adults. Great book for ambiguity.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415.Gravity_s_Rainbow">Gravity's Rainbow (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/235.Thomas_Pynchon">Thomas Pynchon</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:18:13 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Seemed good but &quot;gave up&quot;. Perhaps another time...]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:17:06 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[back on the river for teaching purposes]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:16:53 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I think I will be &quot;currently-reading&quot; this book for a long time.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:16:44 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:03:48 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Very Catholic, very good. There is a philosophical slant in this novel that I never knew existed which moves it beyond Sci-fi and the movie (too stylized to prompt any sort of philosophical questions).]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1428572.The_Soul_Thief_A_Novel">The Soul Thief: A Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/45531.Charles_Baxter">Charles Baxter</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:59:57 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Heard some raves about the description of Buffalo but the same can be said about Baxter's description of LA. He paints a clear yet evocative picture of the city, specifically Sunset Blvd. and Santa Monica. AS for the ending, yeah I have read better, but at the same time I feel the writing skill here...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Heard%20some%20raves%20about%20the%20description%20of%20Buffalo%20but%20the%20same%20can%20be%20said%20about%20Baxter's%20description%20of%20LA.%20He%20paints%20a%20clear%20yet%20evocative%20picture%20of%20the%20city,%20specifically%20Sunset%20Blvd.%20and%20Santa%20Monica.%20AS%20for%20the%20ending,%20yeah%20I%20have%20read%20better,%20but%20at%20the%20same%20time%20I%20feel%20the%20writing%20skill%20here%20is%20to%20be%20admired.%20%20Plots%20and%20endings%20are%20over%20rated,%20Baxter%20knows%20this,%20but%20Soul%20Thief%20completely%20dismisses%20the%20idea%20of%20any%20sort%20of%20conclusion,%20a%20bit%20bothersome%20but%20point%20taken.%0D%0A">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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