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    <body><![CDATA[I have to be careful when I talk about this book. Especially with women. Most women despise The Ginger Man. Actually, what they despise is the Sebastian Dangerfield character for he is a drunken, misogynistic, lecherous scoundrel, the very kind of man they are terrified that their daughters might so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71866863">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel like a traitor giving this even three stars, but the writing is brilliant.  Each line tends to have its own weight and sense of being.  There is poetry and music in the flow of the text.  The author changes from first to third person and back, apparently randomly, but somehow even that makes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56887400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wonder if neuroscientists will ever be able to analyse tears that contain the byproducts of great happiness and great sadness at the same time. And what is such an intense feeling called? Even to think of this book brings a tear to my eye, and reading it I cry buckets. This horrible, loveable, pic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17295814">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[wow....I hated this guy, but sped through the book.  The main character would sell the clothes off his back for a drink.  The depths of depravity the character sinks too...   ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to like this book because it came so highly recommended.  It was okay, but I felt like it ran on too long.  It's the same thing over and over - Sebastian Dangerfield treats women badly.  He begs his friends for drinks.  He opens accounts, runs up bills, and then runs out.  I felt like 346 p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47928066">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Drunken, mouth-watering anarchy.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't help but think of the fine British comedy Withnail And I while reading this.  Much like the dialogue in that film, Donleavy's witty, loosely constructed vignettes might be a bit disorienting at first bit they grow on you and you find yourself chuckling more and more especially in the more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30196781">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes I am absolutely baffled as to why certain books are on the Modern Library Top 100 book list.  This is certainly one of those.  Sebastian Dangerfield is an American studying law at Trinity College in Dublin just after WWII, married and with a daughter, and with a serious drinking problem an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21153603">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three hundred forty seven pages of mayhem. About the moral degradation of one Sebastian Dangerfield, a rake from hell and St. Louis, who is supposed to be studying law in Dublin, on the G. I. Bill. He is a a cad with women, a con artist, deadbeat, philanderer, boozer and brawler—not a very likeabl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70426363">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh my god - this was an absolutely terrible book. The main character is the biggest loser ever that never changes. The whole thing just ends up bugging the shit out of you because you can't believe that there is someone out there that is that much of a loser AND boring... and you really wonder how h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52656175">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A overall sense of dreary complacency, debauchery, and chivalry.But with enough sex and dirty Irish nastiness to keep things lubed. The author likes to run you through the thoughts of the main character in a stream of consciousness fashion as if you are thinking these thoughts yourself. An excellent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38301351">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[That a thoughtless, irresponsible, devil-may-care bloke while providing you with much entertainment, also causes you to consider counting the costs.<br/>Have read this book at least 4 times.  Love Donleavy who I believe has the added appeal of having this book, and possibly others, banned by the Ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52789052">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On one hand, I really liked the author's style - especially moving in and out of first and third person.  On the other hand, I didn't think I needed 300 + pages to get the point that Sebastian Dangerfield is a womanizing alcoholic who has no redeeming qualities.  And unlike &quot;I Hope They Serve B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62519235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you appreciate beautiful writing just because it is beautiful, not because of suspense, action or steamy bedroom scenes, then you will love this book even though there is alot more to it than beauty.  It definitely makes you slow down and enjoy.  Loved it =)<br/><br/>-- ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recommended by the good Orson Swindle in Friday's inaugural EDSBS <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2009/05/08/the-digital-viking-edsbss-guide-to-spicy-living">&quot;Digital Viking&quot; Guide to Spicy Living</a>...looks worth pursuing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great great book.  It's the tale of a guy with no redeeming social value and no apology for it whatsoever trying to score with babes in postwar Ireland.  Somehow seemed bland the first dozen pages or so, but please stick with it.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sex and booze and blasphemy are the trinity of this story. The writing style was a little hard to get used to, but once I gave up and simply went with the flow, I enjoyed this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't know the title &quot;The Ginger Man&quot; referred to a book until I came across this one on a list of top 100 books of all-time.  Ate and drank at The Ginger Man in So. Norwalk last month.]]></body>
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