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    <body><![CDATA[Hi ha llibres, com 'El roig i el negre', que sembla que van ser escrits ahir. T'atrapen des del principi i, tot i tenir 797 pàgines, els devores amb pocs dies i encara lamentes que s'hagi acabat tan aviat. Costa de creure que un escriptor francès de la primera meitat del segle XIX, sigui capaç d'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7439413">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're looking for an easy read, this isn't the place to start.  It's dense, turgid, and sometimes kinda boring.  But it's also moving, with currents of irony and self-awareness, and an all-around understanding of love both in a touching, Casablanca way and in a rather funny teenage-melodrama way...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29793109">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Why didn't I read this sooner? The protagonist Julien is a complicated and contradictory character, but to me seemed so much more alive than, for instance, his pessimistic equivalent in War and Peace, Prince Andre. His ambition and passion are always at odds, and although he's intelligent his vanity...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4522300">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure what to say about this book...it was incredibly interesting to read, but some of the details I found mundane. I kept thinking of how much more interesting it would be in French. I love the end of the book and all of the surprised that you never see coming! The characters are petty and I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19779946">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this French novel. Julien Sorel, intrepid social climber in 19th century France, leaves his working class family in the sticks to achieve a life of ease. It's a wonderful satire of French society, particularly the middle and upper classes, with a surprise ending. The plot is definit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15211015">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I must learn French and read this in the original. I also must read more about French society after the fall of Napoleon.<br/><br/>At any rate, bit slow going at first as I got a handle on provincial class and political systems in 1830s France. Written for a public with much more leisure time on t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49209884">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I never expected anything so it almost shocked me in the end. The novel's so powerful and subtle that I stop thinking for awhile. Then pick it up and read it again and stop thinking for more. It takes me a month to finish the book. I understand now why Nabokov said Classics is a book you want to rer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36217658">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this was an interesting character study, but I must admit, I didn't understand the historical context enough to fully get it.  While Stendhal takes us deeply enough into Julien Sorel's head to understand both his ambition and his personal politics, I never had a good enough grasp of the po...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42779956">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not enjoy this book at all. Maybe it was the translation, but something tells me I wouldn't have liked it anyways. From about page 50, I was wondering when it would end. I don't think I liked any of the characters, each had something annoying, vapid or cruel about them. I sympathized with none...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60959104">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ich muss ehrlich sagen, den &quot;wahre Liebe&quot; ersten Teil fand ich langweilig - bis auf die Schilderungen kleinbürgerlicher Rangkämpfe. Das war geil.<br/><br/>Dann kam der zweite Teil, wo ihm sein schlechter Freund rät, wie er das junge Mädchen dazu bringen könnte, in Liebe zu ihm zu ve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79546135">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just when you think this book is going to be one relentless parody of a hopelessly egotistical provincial youth caught up in a comically shallow provincial political system, it tilts its hand just slightly, so that you grow to doubt your own ironic relationship to the text. I'm not a fan of the merc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39514696">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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