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    <body><![CDATA[Likely the most pathetic character ever evolved in a story - Nelson Dyar, a milque-toast-my-life-is-a-big-zero, heads to Tangier to the post-war International Zone to seek a new start.  Meeting with Bowles-colorful characters(this author has a distinct style), he slowly begins to sink into the moras...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49825688">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I know, I know--strange to be recommending a book I read more than 10 years ago (is it possible??), but this book made such an impression on me, it has stood the test of time. <br/><br/>I became fascinated with Paul Bowles in the early nineties, after someone loaned me a copy of The Sheltering Sky...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5665762">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well worth pushing through to the end. Classic Paul Bowles. Wow. I'm still cringing.<br/><br/>I have to confess, the first time I'd claimed to finish this book, I was a big liar. I'd actually given up during some of the existentialist drug haze toward the end. I'm so glad I picked it up again and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49890877">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Thanks to Connie's exhortations, here I am posting on Goodreads again.  I bought this book at the John Street Strand's closeout sale because I really really love(d) the cover.  The image doesn't do it justice - it's very plain and matte and the colors are terrific.  I thought the story and the writi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56008798">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Unfortunately, one of the most vivid and long term literary memories I have - when the drugged protagonist drives a nail into the ear (and brain) of someone sleeping - giving a description of what it felt like.  I may have to reread just to make sure that I've remembered that correctly all these yea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49776130">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing. Dark. the explorations of Morocco in the days before independence full of foreboding...brilliant Bowles...maybe worth a re-read someday, though I worry I might not love it as much (like happened to me with my formerly all-time favorite 100 Years of Solitude on a 2nd reading, 30 years later!...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57809730">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bowles' particular kind of wit is far better suited to the short story, in my opinion. While his ingenious style remains undiluted in the larger form of the novel, I find his characters so mundane and, in fact, disgusting, that I am going around these days feeling hung over -- as though I'm the one ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12014039">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[been a long time. need to reread this book. i love bowles]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best books ever.   ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[paul bowles is  a fanciful hemingway.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> In <em>Let It Come Down</em>, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would recommend this title to folks moving to a new place, traveling in a strange land, or undergoing significant changes.  Bad choices based on disorientation and alienation lead the main character to follow increasingly more self-destructive paths.  Shakespeare's Macbeth provides the basis for t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21239280">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A grim noir that soon transforms into scorching existential journey through identity and reality. Post war Tangiers with its trash markets, spies, battling governments, debauched party people, drugs, criminals, and the clash of Muslim and Christian culture, makes a stellar background for this chilli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8625119">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books of all time. Paul Bowles is a musician as well as an author, and he writes in a musical style. Also, the plot is a compelling tale of the dark side of travel. I read this in France, so that may be why I connected with the travel theme so much.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[First time I ever read Bowles, my introduction to him.<br/>At first, i thought the story was sort of bland, but it<br/>picked up and when it picked up, it took off.<br/>Funny, great dialogue, story goes places you never thought it<br/>was going. The story a loner and a loser. Great read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A dark read, but re-assuring that people at various points in their lives don't really have it all figured out. Great descriptive of a time and place that is fading away.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Paul Bowles.  No matter how stifling the temperatures may reach in my windowless room his novels' characters are generally always worse off.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book that set me for my trip in Peace Corps Morocco.<br/>Bowles writes of Morocco beautifully - in both a light and gritty way. Terrific author. ]]></body>
    
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