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		<title>Robinson Crusoe will help you appreciate the good things in life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the recommendation of a long-time Smooth Harold reader (thanks, Nic), I finished Robinson Crusoe over the weekend. Regarded as the first novel written in English and first published in 1719, it&#8217;s a story about high-sea adventure, shipwrecks, castaways, gratitude, hard work, and international intrigue.
What I like most about the book is Defoe&#8217;s poetic commentary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books I&#8217;d like to read this year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a seven month hiatus (having only read 4-5 books last year), I caught the reading bug again. To stay the course, here are a dozen classics I&#8217;d like to read in 2009:
Anna Karenina
1984
War and Peace
The Adventures of Huck Finn
In Search of Lost Time
The Stories of Anton Chekhov
Middlemarch
Moby Dick
The Catcher in the Rye
For Whom the [...]]]></description>
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