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    <body><![CDATA[Discovering Beckett (especially his short stories) was, to me, like discovering jesus.  only i wasn't accosted by some jesus freak at my lowest point, i was randomly trying to get into a class taught at PSU by some crazy alcoholic professor from scotland who seemed to be clearly the most intelligent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20832860">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[got about a third of the way through &amp; had to abandon it due to boredom. i'm just really not into absurdity/meaninglessness. i read an interview with charlene spretnak where she said, in essence, that there is something behind our denial of meaning that is deeply linked with our disconnection from n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14659052">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is worth the money, especially if you can find it in paperback. Here are all the short works, gathered together. While I prefer the trilogy (Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable), these short works were really Beckett's fixation - he was trying to distill his ideas into shorter and shorter narra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4944479">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was reading this book from the back to the front, and enjoying it heartily, at first. Apparently, Sam's age was his wisdom, for the earlier works are gelatinous, punctuationless streams of consciousness. Or unconsciousness.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The summer of 3.5.  I felt compelled to give this book 4 because, well, it's Beckett, but he never really hits the heights of his dramatic works.]]></body>
    
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