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    <updated_at>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:29:16 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:36:36 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I just want to add myself to the list of people who love this review (except the Feynman/Schroedinger part).  You nailed it!]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:30:53 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The is a very quirky novel about an Indian boy and his quest for God.  And a lot of other stuff, too.  Well, actually it's pretty much indescribable, so you will have to read it for yourself...]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:38:41 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is an excellent one-volume history of the Pacific War.  Although it is necessarily an overview, it still provides many interesting details regarding individuals and their units.  Good stuff!]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:33:05 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:27:10 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:46:30 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I usually find that software manuals written by the company that wrote the software are pretty useless, and this one fit that mold.  It's a bit too simplistic for my purposes, and filled with an attitude that everything is all good.  But Win7 is so new that there aren't any manuals out from non-MS p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77857975">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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