false 11713 53 Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, <i>The English Patient</i> tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as World War II ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. In lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael Ondaatje weaves these characters together, pulls them tight, then unravels the threads with unsettling acumen. <P>A book that binds readers of great literature, <i>The English Patient</i> garnered the Booker Prize for author Ondaatje. The poet and novelist has also written <i>In the Skin of a Lion</i>, <i>Coming Through Slaughter</i> and <i>The Collected Works of Billy the Kid</i>; two collections of poems, <i>The Cinnamon Peeler</i> and <i>There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do</i>; and a memoir, <i>Running in the Family</i>. 3009869 1992 The English Patient total:9781|5:3083|4:3434|3:2107|2:820|1:337| 9781 37449 12656 793 11713 0771068719 9780771068713 7630 580 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166485607m/11713.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11713.The_English_Patient 5 10 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Jan 30 14:54:09 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 31 16:55:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 231584 0679745203 9780679745204 1214 117 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1200679424m/231584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231584.The_English_Patient 1 4 false Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Tue Apr 10 07:14:35 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 09:25:29 -0700 2007 The English Patient is one of my least favorite novels of all time. Michael Ondaatje's prose is the literary equivalent of having a gossamer skein repeatedly thrown over your face and then dragged away; fleeting and insubstantial, but just present enough to be really fucking annoying. Also, his dial...more...]]> 231584 0679745203 9780679745204 1214 117 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1200679424m/231584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231584.The_English_Patient 1 2 false Tue Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 14 11:12:22 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 11:20:54 -0700 2008 The English Patient was the book that first did it for me.

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Jangan coba-coba mengganggu istri orang, apalagi statusnya masih penganten baru, apalagi kalo ketahuan suaminya! (meski affair-nya sudah berakhir) Runyam dah (dua kali jatoh dari pesawat!) Hehehe

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it struck me totally differently this time. sucks to the english patient and his ladypal, kip singh is the one for me. i'm about to watch the mov...more...]]> 154190 0679777377 9780679777373 53 5 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172254640m/154190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154190.English_Patient 2 1 false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 18:59:21 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 07:40:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1024189 0676970087 9780676970081 311 32 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180311282m/1024189.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1024189.The_English_Patient 1 1 false Wed Mar 04 11:27:35 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 11:45:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1024189 0676970087 9780676970081 311 32 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180311282m/1024189.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1024189.The_English_Patient 5 2 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Mon Sep 10 19:45:56 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 20:28:36 -0700 2007
Poorly done over by the movie. ]]> 11713 0771068719 9780771068713 7630 580 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166485607m/11713.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11713.The_English_Patient 1 3 false Wed Oct 24 12:55:44 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 24 12:55:58 -0700 2007 11713 0771068719 9780771068713 7630 580 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166485607m/11713.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11713.The_English_Patient 5 3 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Jul 04 09:18:04 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 05:30:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 11713 0771068719 9780771068713 7630 580 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166485607m/11713.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11713.The_English_Patient 3 1 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 10:47:07 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 12:35:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 11713 0771068719 9780771068713 7630 580 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166485607m/11713.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11713.The_English_Patient 5 1 false Mon Nov 19 09:01:50 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 17 12:26:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1024189 0676970087 9780676970081 311 32 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180311282m/1024189.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1024189.The_English_Patient 3 2 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 21 07:57:43 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 18:36:06 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1024189 0676970087 9780676970081 311 32 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180311282m/1024189.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1024189.The_English_Patient 3 1 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 10 08:05:01 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 10 08:24:52 -0700 2007 more...]]> 289487 0747572593 9780747572596 234 16 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173449019m/289487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/289487.The_English_Patient 2 1 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 08:10:42 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 06:15:26 -0700 2007 The English Patient is a beautifully written, moving and interesting novel, but ultimately I feel disappointed as I was expecting it to affect me a lot more than it did.

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Preparing to facilitate the discussion of this book for book club was a methodical and lengthy process. As I came across different references and looked then up, I found an enormous number of connections to other aspects of the book that I had not realized...more...]]> 11713 0771068719 9780771068713 7630 580 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166485607m/11713.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11713.The_English_Patient 5 0 false Thu Mar 19 00:34:44 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 00:53:02 -0700 2009 Thrice more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=11712