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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this was a long time in coming. The story &quot;Meneseteung&quot; that I read five years ago in the Best American Stories of the 20th Century was actually the first Alice Munro that I had come across and then over the years countless people--mainly writers--have mentioned her as a favorite. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13343882">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love many of the individual stories here: &quot;Friend of My Youth&quot; (esp. the narrator's reflections on her mother at the beginning and end, which frame the story), &quot;Five Points&quot; (Maria, you heartbreaking girl), &quot;Meneseteung&quot; (!), &quot;Pictures of Ice,&quot; &quot;Oh, Wha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47884242">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's hard to choose a favorite book by Alice Munro, but if I had to, this would be it. Her language is simple, and her characters often inhabit seemingly small worlds, but each story is as deep and complex as a novel. This collection contains her often-anthologized story, MENESETEUNG, which is gorge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67838066">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You know who I love?  Alice Munro.  She is just quietly amazing.  I wish Goodreads had a way to pick an author's entire work in one pick because I think I have read most of what she has written and love them all.<br/><br/>She writes only short stories, though stories in The Begger Maid add up to a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24561842">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was recommended this book in a workshop and it's been very important to my writing.  Alice Munro has a very creative voice and narrative structure that gives her stories style without having to use gimmicks.  I think people should talk more about her.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Can't argue.  Sometimes I lose track of how many stories of hers I've already read.  I revisit them anyway.  Big theme here: infidelity.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Flaky Genius and I are currently reading this collection and other Munro stories for a class she's taking and the writing is universally great. The only complaint both of us have for Munro is why does every story, almost every single story, have to have someone having an affair. It's interesting and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24619864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've always said I hated Alice Munro, ever since I had a teacher who ended every comment to me with &quot;You should be more like Alice Munro.&quot;  But I bought this book for the story &quot;Meneseteung,&quot; which is amazing.  It has all the hallmarks of an Alice Munro story--deliberate, unhurri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1116840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my copy is all marked up. really frekking good.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thanks to everyone who kept telling me, year in and year out, how wonderful Alice Munroe is. Turns out, you're right! (But you knew that.) I've only read two stories so far -- &quot;Friend of My Youth&quot; and &quot;Five Points&quot; -- but find them both endlessly compelling. So much so that it se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12389071">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing, amazing stories.  I had, like, a physical response at the end of each of them (and NO, it was not pooping). It was hard for me to get into her style at first, but once you get in, you don't come out.  That sounds creepy but believe me, it's cool.  All of them are about women having affairs,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27695884">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yeah, I just don't like Alice Munro. I tried several times. I even own a couple of her collections, but I don't like them. They're boring.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great collection of stories.  I'd been meaning to read Munro for a while now, and I'm so glad I did.  She reminds me very much of Anne Tyler - if you like her, I'd suggest checking out Munro.  &quot;Meneseteung&quot; is one of the best short stories I've ever read.  Good stuff.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't even know what to say about Munro.  I felt like I was learning the secrets of the world reading her short stories, and, though I don't think the last ten years' worth of books stack up to the first twenty, I still seek that knowledge thanks to her.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This woman is a genius.  Good Lord, how she tricks you into thinking the story is about ordinary people.  Every time.  I don't know how she manages it, but I'm glad she does.  Our best living fiction writer, by miles.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps my favorite of Munro's individual collections.  I keep coming back to these stories, to Friend of My Youth, Menesetung.  I give the book away to friends of my youth!  Haunting, comforting, wonderful.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did like some of the stories, but for the most part they depressed the heck out of me. Lots of unsatisfied middle aged people having affairs and hurting their friends.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i am always crazy about her everwhere, everything. she is merciless and wise and incisive and surprising, all the time. alice munro is.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful short stories, true to life.  Perfect for those sad weeks at the end of fall, when most of the leaves have fallen, but no snow has arrived.]]></body>
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