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    <body><![CDATA[If I could give this 6 stars I would.  My favoritist-favorite of Beckett.  I reread this one quite often.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ha!<br/><br/>Think I will have to buy a copy. It will replace Wittgenstein, all existentialists, Augustine, Aquinas, T.S. Eliot and manuals on dog husbandry. Also, most economically, it will dispense with all tomes of psychoanalysis. Even though I can sometimes only read a paragraph a day, for hil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75578246">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Written in Roussillon during World War Two, while Samuel Beckett was hiding from the Gestapo, &quot;Watt&quot; was first published in 1953. Beckett acknowledged that this comic novel unlike any other 'has its place in the series' - those masterpieces running from &quot;Murphy&quot; to the Trilogy, &quot;Waiting for Godot&quot; and beyond. It shares their sense of a world in crisis, their profound awareness of the paradoxes of being, and their distrust of the rational universe. &quot;Watt&quot; tells the tale of Mr Knott's servant and his attempts to get to know his master. Watt's mistake is to derive the essence of his master from the accidentals of his being, and his painstakingly logical attempts to 'know' ultimately consign him to the asylum. Itself a critique of error, Watt has previously appeared in editions that are littered with mistakes, both major and minor. The new Faber edition offers for the first time a corrected text based on a scholarly appraisal of the manuscripts and textual history.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Go fish. I've had the same card since Wednesday.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A typical Beckett book, this one is not an easy read, but an interesting read most definately. Did I enjoy it - 'enjoy' would be a big word. It is not that I did not enjoy it at all, because I certainly did. I have always had a huge appreciation for Beckett’s work, and Watt only emphasized once ag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5242719">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. Watt is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, is rooted in the powerful and terrifying vision that made Beckett one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Any time someone claims to be a realist writer, I direct them to this book to show them what a &quot;realistic&quot; book would actually be like.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I laughed out loud in the library.  Ennoble-ing and pathetic at the same time.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Frequently excruciating to read alone, but exactly the same passages are amazing and hilarious to read aloud. I suppose it is unsurprising that Beckett is best known as a playwright. As a novel, a couple really startling/chilling/disorienting scenes really help to jump this up from a literary oddity...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80175080">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's sometimes baffling, often funny, quite monstrous and sad. True, it's not in Beckett's major league of MOLLOY, THE UNNAMABLE, MALONE DIES...etc, but it's thoroughly entertaining. And you'll learn the meaning of the word 'sigmoidal' if you don't already know it (I didn't). ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not for everyone.  Like a lot of Beckett, this book strips humanity to its core and sees if there's anything left.  One of my favorites.    ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The definition of digressive and permutational. &quot;Watt&quot; =  power of illumination or else &quot;What?!?!?&quot; For me it was more of the latter. The sarcastic superiority of the narration rubbed me somewhat (or somewatt) of the wrong way.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[challenging and ... challenging!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Beckett's prose more than just about anyone's. Surgical, bleak and hilarious. Mostly hilarious and mostly bleak. Take for example:<br/><br/>&quot;For if there were two things Watt disliked, one was the moon, and the other was the sun.&quot;<br/><br/><br/>Then, a page later, &quot;And if ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16342015">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Watt</em> is my favourite Beckett work. An obsessional, regressional grotesque, savage and hilarious (natch), like <em>Murphy</em> gone over with a lint remover. You can see Beckett taking a cleaver to the extraneous humanity of his earlier works, and the boiled bones which remain in the pot of <em>Watt</em> inform everyt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36837218">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I bailed, could not take it.  Some kind of writing experiment that would be interesting to read for a class or read essays to try and grasp the point, but mostly for me it got too bogged down in repetitions and quixotic phrasings that would seem to make contradictory statements within one sentence. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44587305">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't feel I should comment on any of this man's fiction. It is too good. It is too right. It's childish and wise. His fixation on details is something that shakes the core of my creative self. This one shows his youth, but has moments that compare to peaks in later novels (like stone-sucking in M...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17055308">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If Beckett thinks he is wasting his own time by writing, I am certainly wasting mine by reading.  But I do think his points are especially applicable to the internet age: thousands of unqualified voices spewing into the void while no one listens.  Still, that point can be made in one sentence; no ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3130079">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[More words mean less, especially in Beckett's <em>Watt</em>. The endless strings of permutations are both annoying and amusing. I strangely identified with the great detail about meaningless events - seriously, the majority of life is filled with trivial things (yet most novels focus on the sensational). <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38623723">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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