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    <updated_at>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:53:15 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Mindblowing narrative non-fiction. If you like John Krakauer (or John Muir, for that matter), you will love this.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:01:46 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'm working on her next one...So don't you dare pan this in your Goodreads review.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:30:02 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[These are solid short stories, all set in New Hampshire. They vary in style -- some are well-executed stories with typical structure, and some attempt surrealism, with less success, in my opinion -- but they are all interesting and even the stories with &quot;typical&quot; structure are atypical in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3529089">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:27:25 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Holy similies. This book will leave your head spinning and your heart clattering like a bucket of loose teeth being shaken. This is hard-boiled noir, but Chabon makes it deeper, something more than a jaded cop in pursuit. You care about his characters. And as if the plot isn't enough to make you dri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3391586">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 18 May 2007 12:02:50 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is Richard Russo at his best. A little bit <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The World According to Garp" title=" The World According to Garp"> The World According to Garp</a>, a little bit...well, Russo. <br/><br/>It's the story of a small university campus in Pennsylvania and the eccentric English Department faculty warping minds there. Told by Henry Deveraux Jr., a hilarious narrator with on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1289605">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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