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	<title>Smooth Harold, The Blog of Blake Snow &#187; reviews</title>
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		<title>Would you pay $430 for a browser-only Macbook Air?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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Because that&#8217;s what you get when you buy a Samsung Wi-Fi Chromebook.
Admittedly, it&#8217;s not a perfect analogy. The Macbook Air is skinnier in the front and capable of 1080p playback, whereas the Samsung Chromebook can only render 720p HD. The former is also made of industrial titanium, whereas the latter uses high-end Macbook-like plastic. And in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My top 10 favorite passages from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took me a while, but I finally got around to reading Mark Twain, starting with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which I finished this week.
I figured the author was good, given all the praise that&#8217;s continuously heaped on him. But I didn&#8217;t know he&#8217;d be this good. I had no idea he was as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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As the father of two girls, with another on the way, I&#8217;ll take all the help I can get concerning their well-being and development. And although it could have been written using fewer words, the 197-page Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters was an enlightening wake-up call to some of the challenges my daughters will likely face. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Nike Lunar Glides are unattractive but competent, light, and smart running shoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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Although the inventor of modern running shoes, Nike doesn&#8217;t have a reputation among distance runners these days. Said athletes usually wear one of five brands: Asics (which Nike first sold as a distributor in the &#8217;60s), Mizuno, Brooks, Saucony or New Balance. You just can&#8217;t &#8220;do it&#8221; in Nikes anymore, at least without looking like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kite Runner falls flat, despite a killer twist and enthralling history of Afghan culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished reading The Kite Runner a couple of weeks ago. Here are my postmortem thoughts:

The book starts slow, but quickly picks up once the story flashbacks to the protagonist growing up in late &#8217;70s and early &#8217;80s Afghanistan.
Khaled Hosseini is a great writer. You&#8217;ll enjoy reading his style.
The book has one of the best [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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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>My review of Old Man and the Sea, after reading it a second time</title>
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		<comments>http://www.smoothharold.com/my-review-of-old-man-and-the-sea-after-reading-it-for-a-second-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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I was 15 the first time I read Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s Old Man and the Sea. I remember thinking when discovering it: &#8220;Really? A Pulitzer Prize book that&#8217;s only 127 pages? I can do that!&#8221; And I did.
I liked it. It was an easy read. I felt for the man, and it was inspiring. Last week, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Africa is filled with complex sentences but dripping with culture</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/out-of-africa-is-filled-with-complex-sentences-but-dripping-with-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smoothharold.com/out-of-africa-is-filled-with-complex-sentences-but-dripping-with-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By recommendation, I finished reading Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen last month. Though hardly a page-turner, I have a stronger appreciation for Africa after reading this book than by reading or seeing any other material on the subject. It&#8217;s a true story about a Danish transplant and her experience running a farm in east [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smooth Harold answers your burning Life of Pi questions</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/smooth-harold-answers-your-burning-life-of-pi-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smoothharold.com/smooth-harold-answers-your-burning-life-of-pi-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished reading the popular Life of Pi last night. In sum, it&#8217;s a clever endorsement for zoos, storytelling, and the existence of God, either allegorically or literally.
Author Yann Martel&#8217;s use of metaphors is inspired and makes me feel inadequate as a writer when it comes to creatively describing objects, emotions, and experiences. For that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSNBC: Rock Band 2 or Guitar Hero World Tour?</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/which-is-better-rock-band-2-or-guitar-hero-world-tour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smoothharold.com/which-is-better-rock-band-2-or-guitar-hero-world-tour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Follow the yellow brick road to MSNBC and I&#8217;ll tell you my thoughts&#8230; sorta. For those that have played both, which do you prefer?
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