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  <title><![CDATA[Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?]]></title>
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  <default_description>With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1976</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Raymond Carver]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Dec 06 15:46:17 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a review, just a summary - might be useful...<br/><br/>“Fat” - A waitress serves a fat man and is moved by the experience. <br/><br/>“Neighbors” - A couple house-sitting for neighbors are gradually taking over their neighbors’ lives. They begin to enjoy the feeling of <br/>voyeuri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10058214">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those blow your hair back, curl your toes books.  It’s like drinking juice concentrate.  All the stories are brief and &quot;to the point&quot;.  Yes they are minimalist, but more to the point, Carver captures the human experience at a certain important moment in time.  Further char...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1370021">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Nov 19 12:57:57 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[such a masterpiece collection of the short story form. Gritty, isolated, real and honest.  Quoting the NY Times Book Review, &quot;they are especially artful in their suggestion of repressed violence.&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="71449749">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? sets the stage for a career of solid, highly-crafted writing based around the life of everyday people and their everyday lives.<br/><br/>If anything, the characters Raymond Carver creates in 1976’s Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0070101930...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71449749">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some action, not much. Some info, not much. Carver doesn't tell us everything about his characters, neither puts them in intrincated plots that would reveal their dirty secrets. Little does Carver tells us, he lets us watch everyday scenes and conversations - these might end up in big revelations, e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44603059">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[He is really really great. I think  I should have put down the book after each story to enjoy the next story even more.]]></body>
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    <review id="71702719">
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm hooked half way through.  Very reminiscent of Cheever but the violence and darkness is not quite as overpowering.....It's there but it isn't as inevitable.  These stories leave you curious and sometimes a bit nauseous but always amazed at the complexity of living.   <br/><br/>I'm now adding af...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71702719">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37334769">
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I heard about Ray Carver in relation to Richard Russo- or Richard Yates- or both.  Either way- he came to my attention as a master of the short story.  Judging from this collection he is.  He sketches people and their emotional conditions so you feel and understand their plight like it was y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37334769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33223274">
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    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Sep 20 18:21:01 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most start with the narrator proclaiming that he is between jobs. Sometimes she will puff on a cigaret (spelled just so) and plot against a  promiscuous woman on her street. Sometimes he will tell us that everything is alright between himself and his wife, except for that one tiny mistake two years ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33223274">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19348524">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 02 23:13:19 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I became interested in reading Carver after stumbling upon his short story in the New Yorker a while ago. This was the longer version of an already published story, which -apparently- had been tightly edited by his long time editor. Carver, as it turned out, is well known for his terse but deeply-co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19348524">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Sep 25 07:12:39 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's almost impossible for me to read Raymond Carver stories and not feel compelled to write one of my own.  A derivative, foolish, weak thing, of course, but one of my own is generally born nonetheless.  Which I think is a great testament to how beautiful Carver is--the same thing happens to me aft...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71882967">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73429089">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome. I love how he makes everyday life seem weird and haunting, in as few words as possible. One of my favorite moments is in &quot;Neighbors&quot; where he uses 4 words to say that his characters did it: &quot;He unfastened his belt.&quot; Favorite stories: &quot;Neighbors&quot;, &quot;They're ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73429089">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64554106">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books that people say they like just to sound smart and artsy.  The stories describe the mundanes of everyday life, in excruciating detail.  You want more stories like this? Go talk to your neighbors. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Raymond Carver has been described as the &quot;American Chekov&quot; and rightly so. This text written in Carvers signature 'dirty realistic' style encapsulates the troubles of the common person, with most of his characters in some form of chrisis.<br/><br/> Many of his stories represent an element ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9130191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2625463">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Aside from Carver's all-inclusive/greatest hits collection &quot;Where I'm Calling From,&quot; this is his best book.  This was his first collection and I think his efforts to perfect his craft paid off the most in this youthful, electric, fearless offering.  Like other Carver books his pieces are v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2625463">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67045230">
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    <body><![CDATA[Having never read any Carver, I expected to love this. Oh well. I appreciate Carver's style in theory, but in practice I found it more than a little formulaic, mannered and soulless, with the exception of a few stories (&quot;Sixty Acres&quot; and the one about the kid catching and splitting the fis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67045230">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44638010">
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    <name><![CDATA[Evelyn]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[My life in eighth grade: my dad's Carver books, black clothes, lots of self-pity. One day I'll reread Carver to free the books from these associations. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i really wanted to read raymond carver ever since i read a review of my favorite band, the weakerthans, and the author described their songs as like raymond carver stories set to music. the first time i checked at the library, no carver books.  the second time, this one was there, and i had a few ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8771900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been slow going for me on the reading front... mainly because my focus has been writing these days, and I'm on a break from school, which, when I'm not, has me reading my A off. But Carver finally swept me through a book. His voice is so clearly defined, he might as well be sitting in front of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25569397">more...</a>]]></body>
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