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  <title><![CDATA[Faces in the Water]]></title>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It this novel, we follow Istina through various wards of a 1960s mental asylum.  Istina treats the wards like levels in a video game. Patients get to the &quot;next level&quot; (the topmost level = self-sufficiency/returning home) based on the merit points they accrue; they lose points by acting out...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17464725">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Faces in the Water is technicolour. Language and imagery mercury fluid so as to immerse the reader into the compelling experience of Istina Mavet- incarcerated in a mental institution in New Zealand in the 1950’s for 8 years (as had the author Janet Frame). <br/>The book is geographically charter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48464488">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quite a depressing look at mental hospitals in the days when lobotomy and insulin shock therapy were in vogue. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[From the very first page I was in awe of Janet Frame's writing style...I kept saying: &quot;Wow, this is fantastic!&quot;...who would' a thought that a book about a woman's painful experience spent in an insane asylum would be so beautiful? I savored every page, and found it hard to put down. So wha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52009783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I happened to be reading this book for the first time, during my Psych. rotation (Nursing School).  During my rotation I sat in on what is now called &quot;Electrical Current Therapy&quot;.  It was unsettling...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A really good book about crazy people... since reading it I've heard more about it, but at the time I had never heard of it and had no expectations... maybe that's what made it better.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[based on Frame's own experiences in a mental home -- this was really touching, and told in that wonderful acerbic yet poetic voice that Frame is well-known for.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the one that fictionalizes Janet's mental hospital experience. I like it though don't love it so far, but I have only read the first few chapters.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[moving and real and haphazard]]></body>
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