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    <body><![CDATA[private detective has a hard time with his case because he's constantly daydreaming. only it's not as funny as that makes it sound. this is late-era brautigan and frankly made me kind of sad. the whimsicality is still there but the marvelous metaphors are mostly gone and the honesty and willingness ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37936082">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Go nazani...<br/>VIVA YAZDAANJOO!!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[در رویای بابل]]>
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    <![CDATA[You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Nobody's left but C. Card. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. The fast, funny, slam-bang adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C. Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart. The book was originally published in 1977.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[به گمانم من<br/>از جمله به این دلیل<br/>هرگز کارگاه خصوصی قابلی نشدم<br/>که بیش از حد<br/>در رویای بابل بودم<br/>...<br/>هر وقت داشتم کاری را به آخر می رساندم<br/>و در این بین یکهو با...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55362029">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Nobody's left but C. Card. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. The fast, funny, slam-bang adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C. Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart. The book was originally published in 1977.]]>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[من قبلا از همین نویسنده کتاب صید ماهی قزل آلا ... رو گرفته بودم. ولی حقیقتا نتونسته بودم که تمومش کنم. نمیدونم شاید باید دوباره شروع کنم.<br/>این یکی کتاب ولی واقعا عالی ب...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30377059">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite Brautigan novel, based in large part on the detective's corny one-liners.  Example: Detective walks in to find a dead prostitute who has been stabbed to death with a letter-opener.<br/><br/>Detective says, &quot;Somebody needs to teach this guy the difference between an envelope and a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75384701">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[تو همین نمایشگاه کتاب خریدمش...همین مسخره بازی که تو مصلا راه انداخته بودن...و اسمش رو هم گذاشته بودن نمایشگاه بین المللی کتاب تهران/طهران<br/>...کتاب براتیگانٍ دیگه]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[به گمانم من، از جمله به این دلیل هرگز کارآگاه خصوصی قابلی نشدم که بیش از حد در رؤیای بابل بودم]]>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>اسمیت اسمیت در جدال با سایه های روبوتی <br/><br/>من نمیفهمم وقتی نویسنده ای انقدر زیبا ، روان ، پرکشش و خنده دار ! می تونه <br/>بنویسه چرا باید خودکشی کنه ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Nobody's left but C. Card. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. The fast, funny, slam-bang adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C. Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart. The book was originally published in 1977.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[من خیلی خیلی دوستش داشتم.خیلی]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[در رؤیای بابل]]>
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    <![CDATA[به گمانم من، از جمله به این دلیل هرگز کارآگاه خصوصی قابلی نشدم که بیش از حد در رؤیای بابل بودم]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[بدك نبود]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[در رویای بابل]]>
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    <![CDATA[You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Nobody's left but C. Card. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. The fast, funny, slam-bang adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C. Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart. The book was originally published in 1977.]]>
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    <![CDATA[You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Nobody's left but C. Card. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. The fast, funny, slam-bang adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C. Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart. The book was originally published in 1977.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[کتاب آن‌چنان جالب نبود برام ، یعنی وقتی با عامه پسند بوکفسکی مقایسه می‌کنم‌اش می‌بینم اصلی چیز خاصی نداشت ولی خب به هر حال خوب بود در نوع خودش]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Nobody's left but C. Card. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. The fast, funny, slam-bang adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C. Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart. The book was originally published in 1977.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of Brautigan's best contemporary genre-spoofs, this one of detective fiction.  Since this is a spoof, at the end of the novel, the detective can't find his butt with both hands, the murder remains unsolved, and chaos prevails, so don't let that bother you.  The point of the novel, in my not-so-h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31751233">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[در رؤیای بابل]]>
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    <![CDATA[به گمانم من، از جمله به این دلیل هرگز کارآگاه خصوصی قابلی نشدم که بیش از حد در رؤیای بابل بودم]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://fourstar.ir/1388/06/06/dreaming-of-babylon/" title="http://fourstar.ir/1388/06/06/dreaming-of-babylon/">http://fourstar.ir/1388/06/06/dreaming-o...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am forcing myself to not give every Brautigan book 5 stars.<br/><br/>But hear me clearly: his writing is one of the greatest treasures of my reading career. His style, subjects, form, and unique command of language is totally unique (think a more gentle and creative Tom Robbins.)<br/><br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book seems to be one of brautigan's lesser-loved ones, but i really enjoyed it, finding that it was enjoyable to read and presented a traditional &quot;gumshoe&quot; character with that original brautigan flair. very clever and well written.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Nobody's left but C. Card. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. The fast, funny, slam-bang adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C. Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart. The book was originally published in 1977.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[More in the comedy genre. Though &quot;comedy&quot; is a strange word, because the comedy is of the truly absurd variety. All of his characters are so opaque and the stories so disjointed, they read like a fever dream.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember reading this in the 70's. I can remember that I liked it very much and checked it out of the library several times. It's another one I'd like to revisit and see if it really was as good as I remember.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ I really enjoyed reading the book!<br/>sorta..fun, you know...it was extremely wellwritten &amp;...let's say it was amazing! <br/>the only thing is that I couldn't under stand the ending...what do you think?? <br/>]]></body>
    
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