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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18792.One_Matchless_Time_A_Life_of_William_Faulkner">One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner (P.S.)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7532.Jay_Parini">Jay Parini</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:14:16 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Easier reading Parini on Faulkner than reading Faulkner on Lafayette County. (I don't think I could spell the fictional name for wild Bill's native place.) What I learned: Einstein once asked Faulkner, &quot;Where do you get your stories?&quot; Faulkner said, &quot;I hear voices.&quot; Einstein smil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34789772">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12898.Death_of_a_Salesman">Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8120.Arthur_Miller">Arthur Miller</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:13:16 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Willy Loman must die. That's the theme, and I guess if you have to wrap the American immigrant experience up in a tragedy, the trials of a salesman seem eloquent. I couldn't read it without seeing Dustin Hoffman in the lead role (CBS version, 1985 or so). That said, I don't think I'd read this, ever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32289669">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2774104.Conquistador_Hernan_Cortes_King_Montezuma_and_the_Last_Stand_of_the_Aztecs">Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/147673.Buddy_Levy">Buddy Levy</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:26:22 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The story of Cortes and Montezuma is such a sad and perplexing one, as I guess all stories of manifest destiny must be. I still marvel at the idea of a Mexico City rising on a mountainside, surrounding by lakes in every direction. A sort of, 'If you build it, they will come,' I guess.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/822367.Proust_Was_a_Neuroscientist">Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/428923.Jonah_Lehrer">Jonah Lehrer</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:58:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Lehrer finds a fascinating thread linking science to art, well worth a look. Proust beating the psychologists and such to memory, Whitman beaming that the body is the soul, Stein taking on the netherworld of grammar, Cezanne defining art as a personal imagining. Clever stuff.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46169.A_Moveable_Feast">A Moveable Feast (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1455.Ernest_Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 26 May 2008 15:58:26 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I recall feeling flat when I found out he'd written it largely from memory, in Cuba no less, very far-removed from the confines of Place Contrescarpe. (The level of confidence that perhaps, sadly, can only come from retrospection floored me, then. And when I learned Ern wrote it probably to add a wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23000858">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4652.In_Our_Time">In Our Time (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1455.Ernest_Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 26 May 2008 15:53:06 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[My first Hemingway, and you know what they say about your first.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324494.The_Great_Mortality_An_Intimate_History_of_the_Black_Death_the_Most_Devastating_Plague_of_All_Time">The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (P.S.)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5497.John_Kelly">John Kelly</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 26 May 2008 15:39:55 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A taste of death, a la the black plague. Beyond the sweeping sadness of random and rampant affliction, I most recall the strange passages regarding the half bridge at Avignon, it's cleaved edge stopping midway over the wide, flat Rhone. I have no idea why these passages were included.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/384298.The_Perfectionist_Life_and_Death_in_Haute_Cuisine">The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/173679.Rudolph_Chelminski">Rudolph Chelminski</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 25 May 2008 20:27:05 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A quick-reading memoir, of sorts, from a journalist who'd spent a good deal of time in and around Chez Loiseau. A not-exacting but still marvelous story of 3-star chefdom (3 being the summit for restaurants; Michelin rates hotels up to 5 stars), the role of the media and le Guide rouge, and what it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22952883">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:43:19 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[uh ... i'm reading that, like, tomorrow.]]></body>
        
    
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    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17975218</link>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:32:07 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[larsen is a tough sell. that said, because of the bigness of his scope, you buy him lock, stock and barrel. i haven't read 'thunderstruck,' his newest, but i've read about it - and it fits the man's mission. the question is: is it literary? and does that matter?]]></body>
        
    
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