false <![CDATA[The Way of All Flesh (Giant Thrifts)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171916882m/126512.jpg 126512 61 <div>Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement," Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood satirizes Victorian hypocrisy in its chronicle of the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex. Along the way, it offers a powerful indictment of 19th-century England's major institutions. </div> 575504 1903 The Way of All Flesh (Giant Thrifts) total:409|5:76|4:137|3:128|2:51|1:17| 409 1431 851 61 1 2 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Feb 16 17:29:50 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 17:30:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Wed Sep 03 22:09:25 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 22:13:20 -0700 2008
Were you supposed to be Ernest? So after all that, you abandoned your own kids t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 20:20:01 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 20:28:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 13:51:38 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 13:52:17 -0700 2009
I enjoyed Butler’s semi-autobiographical novel far more than Sons And Lovers. (And much more than A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man. Was there some requirement that turn-of-the-century novelists from the British isles write such a work?) Although written some 30 years earlier, I ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 18:48:41 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 18:55:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 10 22:25:53 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 13 20:39:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 16:27:05 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 17:36:04 -0700 2009
What it's about: A narrator details the incidents of a young man's coming of age in Victorian En...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 05 12:55:54 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 13:01:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 11:22:05 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 12:02:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 02 11:32:53 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 14:18:28 -0800 2008 1 This is a fictionalised autobiography which apparently has maintained a digni...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 11:43:33 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 11:52:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 07:31:24 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 08:50:32 -0700 2009 Unfortunately, the edition I read was an acid-paper, extremely poorly edited publication. Lots of errors which seemed to be of the 'word-processer' type. Many repeated phrases and typos. (I can't rem...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 12:30:22 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 12:32:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Apr 21 03:12:10 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 03:12:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 20:20:45 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 01:20:53 -0700 2009
5 stars to make up for the many haters on Goodreads. I suppose Butler would be happy to know that he did and still does make re...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 19 11:29:03 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 11:31:29 -0800 2009 He says pleasure + money = Good. But doesn't understand the pleasure of relationships and the role of money in society. Interesting to see the negative aspects of his view of the clergy and family.]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 17:41:15 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 17:31:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 07 06:22:31 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 07 06:22:34 -0700 2007
This is perfect satire where the hypocrisies of the time are rendered with a fine balance and a degree of...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 10:27:27 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 08:20:07 -0700 2009 Do what you love;love what you do. Don't let anyone else steer your life.
This book was too long though. ]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 13:49:01 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 13:52:23 -0700 2009 (2)Most parents should be drowned before they can permanently damage their children
(3)Age 28 is the beginning of the age of reason.
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