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    <updated_at>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:34:30 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:58:41 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:52:16 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:39:26 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book absolutely took me forever to get through, but it was totally worth it.  It's really dense and academic and really written more for political philosophers, but, for the parts I could stay with it at least, I still really enjoyed it.<br/><br/>Wolfe sets out to define what is really meant ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46591096">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:18:58 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A flock of sheep work together to solve a murder mystery.  What a dumb idea for a book.  I got through maybe 100 pages.  I guess they can't all be winners.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:39:57 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A little preachy in parts, and some of it was the sort of &quot;Everything about the World we live in is falling apart!!&quot; screed that I'm inherently skeptical of.  And the author was also short on solutions to any of the problems she discussed.<br/><br/>That said, I'm still glad I read it, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65074414">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:47:01 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:20:44 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It's sorta like.. This American Life in book form.  Easy reading.  Lots of variety.  I skipped a couple of the stories where I wasn't all that interested.  But overall really good stuff.]]></body>
        
    
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