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    <updated_at>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:53:02 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I love this story on so many levels. It's metaphoric relevance and creative look into our own capacity to perceive things, imagine things, and restructure what it means to be on a certain plane of existence simply blows the mind wide open.<br/><br/>the main character is A. Square who lives in 2-d sp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21217336">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/305286.H_P_Lovecraft_A_Biography">H.P. Lovecraft: A Biography (Unknown Binding)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3305.L_Sprague_de_Camp">L. Sprague de Camp</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:44:02 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is one of two biographies i read on HP Lovecraft. Aside from the expected chronological account of his life, de Camp offers some of his personal insight about Lovecraft, his life, and his writing.<br/><br/>Since this is the first biography written on him, you got to hand it to de Camp, who co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20729215">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841.Foucault_s_Pendulum">Foucault's Pendulum (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1730.Umberto_Eco">Umberto Eco</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:16:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is one for the intellectually stimulated reader, one whose imagination is steeped in concepts and the intrigue of conspiracy and all the unseen chess moves of historical fact/myth/legend.<br/><br/>it is a rich read. Umberto, Professor of Semiotics, influenced by James Joyce, creates a story a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15390318">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91151.The_Five_Minute_Iliad_Other_Instant_Classics_Great_Books_For_The_Short_Attention_Span">The Five Minute Iliad Other Instant Classics: Great Books For The Short Attention Span (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/52368.Greg_Nagan">Greg Nagan</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:30:17 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book kicks a lot of butt. Playful recreations of classic books in a more modern attention span. My favorite is &quot;1984.&quot; It opens up, more or less, saying &quot;everything in the future sucks,&quot; and it was enough to get me rolling.<br/><br/>let's see, catcher in the rye, iliad, Joyc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16036791">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153866.Captain_Underpants_and_the_Perilous_Plot_of_Professor_Poopypants">Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants (Captain Underpants)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/33280.Dav_Pilkey">Dav Pilkey</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:40:22 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Hands down the best kids book series i've ever encountered. A story about two trouble makers in school who hypnotize their mean evil wicked principle so that when something (like hands clapping) happens he turns into captain underpants, shedding all his clothes donning a cape and running around in h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16011564">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:30:42 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Vivid, imaginative, dirty (come on, it takes place in the magical  sewer underworld of London). Rats are important royal bloodlines, and all the inhabitants are invisible to the surface world (unless you stand right in front of them, in which case they're likely to say, &quot;excuse me, i dind't see...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15390332">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:23:04 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[she probably hated it because she was in high school. and we all know how richly spiritual and intelligent all high school kids are programmed to be.<br/><br/>Bah! i'm a cynic i'm sorry<br/><br/>i love this this book. it's a personal journey in a specific culturally/historically calibrated consciousness that supports such a personal journey, as hunter s thompson was supported in ours.]]></body>
        
    
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