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  <title><![CDATA[Before She Met Me]]></title>
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  <default_description>Graham was an historian: he was meant to be an expert on the past. But there were aspects of it, he discovered, that couldn't be subdued, that simply carried on, lively and painful, as if they were the present. He began to mind. He minded very much indeed. While those around him look on, Grahams meticulous passion gradually begins to run out of control. Julian Barnes presents an unnerving version of sexual jealousy and shows it to be not just living, but reasonable, ordinary, funny, dangerous and consuming.Picador reissues Julian Barnes with, for the first time, a striking, integrated cover design across the whole backlist.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1982</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Julian Barnes]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A semi-creepy erotic novel about a neurotic wimp who discovers his second wife had a short lived career in low-budget sex comedies (she never told him) so he obsessively investigates her past sex life.  There are times when the story’s amusing and times when it’s just plain irritating. <br/>WHA...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12398304">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA['El loro de Flaubert' me pareció muy bueno, 'Amor, etc.' estaba bastante bien, pero 'Antes de conocernos' ha sido bastante insufrible. Pero daré un voto de confianza a Julian Barnes y lo indultaré (de momento), porque al fin y al cabo 'Antes de conocernos' es sólo su segundo libro. Me ha parecid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7540072">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Julian Barnes, best known for Flaubert’s Parrot and Nothing to be Afraid Of, turns his talents to a murder when he follows the obsession of Graham Hendrick whose second wife acted in B films before he met her.  Hendrick becomes addicted to viewing his wife in various “affairs,” can’t travel ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54722612">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Apr 11 16:42:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[British authors are so daring. It seems almost a contradiction. Here is this book which portrays a completely different sort of jealousy and Julian Barnes shows it with painful detail. It's so real that one wonders if we're all bound to crack at one point.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A strange tale about a man's obsession on his wife's past.  It's interesting at times (the part where he left his wife to be with his mistress was particularly emotional in its coldness) but I can't really get the obsession.  I finished reading it only because it's from Barnes.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't remember finishing a book and immediately regretting that I'd read it. The disappointment here isn't any lack of artistry in the crafting of the book. No, it's simpler than that, and perhaps it's just my mistake for picking it up. I thought it was a comic novel. Indeed, it starts out that wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16011918">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So i read this book after reading Barnes weightier later novels.  This is slight book but, as always, beautifully written and disarmingly honest. Squirm as he examines male jealousy and impotence at its sad extreme. No Flaubert's Parrot, this is more like a Nick Hornby romp, albeit elevated by the p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12635541">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 30 10:11:26 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 30 10:15:03 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Originaltitel 'Before She Met Me'<br/><br/>Schräge Beziehungsgeschichte. Die Eifersucht im Titel bezieht sich auf jene von Graham Hendrick auf das Vorleben seiner zweiten Frau Ann.<br/><br/>Das ganze entwickelt sich allmählich zu einer zeitversetzten Dreiecks-Beziehung...vor Graham war da u.a....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5359594">more...</a>]]></body>
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