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    <body><![CDATA[Currently, I am writing a text adventure. A common, but by no means universal, facet of such stories is an anonymous protagonist. The narrator of Billy Bathgate has no name. The key figures in his universe, gangster Dutch Shultz and his cronies, just call him kid. Halfway through the book he claims ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47930556">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.  I had a hard time when I neared the end and I was too busy to sit down for any good length of time to finish the story!  But I finally made the time.  Now I'm ready to read another of E.L. Doctorow's novels.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[در دوران رکود اقتصادی تاریخی، در سال های 1930، در محله ی فقر زده ی برانکس نیویورک، گانگستری به نام داچ شولتز، پسرکی را در خیابان می بیند، که برای همسالانش شعبه بازی می ک...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63139341">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I would have given Billy Bathgate four stars, but it ended to soon!  So, high criticism. It took a few chapters for the book to interest me, but once I was snagged I read the entire thing through, and was only dismayed that it felt prematurely ended- just as the narrative was flourishing, enjoying t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32349461">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very enjoyable book featuring an interesting and believable plot populated with interesting and believable characters.  The book is about Billy Bathgate, a very intelligent teenager from the Bronx who is hoping to catch on with Dutch Schultz's mob in its time of decline (early 1930s).  It's an ent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52874886">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Doctorow displays a deft hand in writing about the trials and travails of a young boy who finds his destiny as a member of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang.  We are immersed in the boy and the aldult voice of that same child and can easily distinguish between the two.  Doctorow makes us smell the st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70496110">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Per Doctorow, the language is dense and the syntax spirals on. Yet, rather than alienating or being at odds with the narrator and story, it actually makes both epic. I love the rendering of 1930s America, and I love the idea of a mob story beginning on the decline of the characters--it's more like G...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62599131">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book. It took me a moment to get into the rhythm as Doctorow is wordy as all hell, but loved it. This is the fictitious tale of a young teen who goes to work for Dutch Schultz and his gang. Strikes just the right note and kept me turning pages to see how Billy would escape the fate so m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46554565">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I stayed up 'til way-too-late o'clock finishing this book. Like <em>Ragtime</em>, Doctorow illuminates and enlivens American history -- in this case, the story of Dutch Schultz and the NYC gangster scene. Doctorow's writing style has a certain stream-of-consciousness, POV flow that initially might turn off s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78736855">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd heard about this book for years and knew there was a movie made of it so, when I found a copy at my own private library (the neighborhood laundry), I decided I'd check it.  It's a good story with interesting characters but, ultimately, it didn't pull me in, didn't grab me by scruff of the neck. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15810925">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My boyfriend loves this book, so I read it.  I had a lot of trouble getting into it at first.  Gangster stories have never really appealed to me, there has to be some other draw.  Violence and tough talking just doesn't excite me in a novel, though it's different in the movies.<br/><br/>About 150 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2391281">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[اول کتاب رو خوندم و بعد هم فیلم اقتباس شده اش رو دیدم ، کتاب رو بیشتر دوست دارم اما فیلم  هم وفادارانه ساخته شده]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A story revolving around real life people and events but staring a completely fictional character.  A 1930's mob story.  It was a good story but not a great one.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fantastic book that I started on a whim one night. Hours later, I couldn't put it down. Wanted to keep reading into the small hours of the night.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A story about a young boy's mob ties with a happy ending. A good growing up story.<br/>The book has personality, though I only need one happy ending, and this book had two. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very enjoyable read--the prose pops off the page, a first-person voice as lively as anything.  What I love about Doctorow's novels, however, is entirely lacking here.  His ability to reinvent genre, and to question the way we come to view American history, does not resonate via young Billy.  Very ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21083713">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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