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      <name><![CDATA[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was interesting. Goethe wrote this book in part as a meditation and exploration of the scientific developments that were happening at the time. Specifically he was interested in chemistry and the law of attraction. &quot;The tendency of those elements which, when they come into contact, at once t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71595806">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Herr Goethe definitely had a passion for drama and tragedy. Except this time she dies but, don't cry yet, he joins her in death (gothic, right?) and &quot;Thus the lovers lie sleeping side by side ; peace hovers above their resting-place ; fair angel faces gaze down upon them from aloft. And what ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71778273">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Elective Affinities starts out in the midst of a perfectly comfortable country house inhabited by a perfectly content couple. However, the intrusion of each partner's guest starts the process of unwinding the marriage in slow and heartbreaking clarity. The delicate, sensitive portrayal of duty versu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64013842">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21273851">
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Kora Battig, by way of the filmic version]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Goethe's big works have left a strong imprint on modern literary field: Faust's endless ambition, Werther's primal despondency, and the Roman elegies' outright eroticism all set the stage for later authors to flesh out the Romantic worldview. Goethe's poetry doesn't translate to English comfortably,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21273851">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 21 13:54:55 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 11 13:39:44 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this for the first time when I was a little older, it still didn't fare better with me than Werther did. <br/>From those I have read, I must admit that I don't see Goethe as a great novellist. <br/>&quot;Die Wahlverwandtschaften&quot; - &quot;Elective Affinities&quot; is Goethe's marriage ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4889005">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27052814">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jul 27 19:38:53 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a beautiful novella; it is written on levels metaphor. The main characters work on their property to sculpt their experience therein and to amp up its symbolic references. All the while the 4 principle players are deeply affecting one another so that no one person acts independently but rath...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27052814">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77184676">
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    <body><![CDATA[Part of a comparative literature course now teaching. Not easy for the modern reader on the first try, but on a second read has amazing moments.]]></body>
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    <review id="12936385">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stephan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Begins slow but eventually becomes hard to put down, drawing to a dramatic end where everyone worth something croaks over locks of hair and old letters.<br/><br/>I never doubted Goethe's sense and touch with words. He's good with agony without every saying the word. But it's written like all sorts...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12936385">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45598681">
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite book of all time. ]]></body>
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    <review id="59518437">
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    <body><![CDATA[interesting]]></body>
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    <review id="61901348">
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, Goethe has finally discovered &quot;plot,&quot; albeit simplistic and wandering.  No character development, and the &quot;hero&quot; isn't, to put it mildly.  Romantic dreck.  Ick!  I continue to slog through his collected works and sincerely hope it gets better.  So far, he wouldn't be on my ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61901348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23326165">
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    <body><![CDATA[Analysis of the meaning and difficulties of marriage, especially the effect of other people. The first third is more thoughtful and analytical; the remainder slightly more plot-driven. The mannered, detached and somewhat unnatural style (though apparently typical of a common German novel form of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23326165">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68006297">
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    <body><![CDATA[Genial! Me lo he leído dos veces!<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="15820269">
    <user id="873514">
    <name><![CDATA[Emily]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the few novels that successfully uses fiction to play with a philosophical system -- so much so that you can still enjoy it without paying attention to that, if you couldn't care less.  And as far as Goethe's fiction goes, &quot;Elective Affinities&quot; is far superior to &quot;The Sorrows o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15820269">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16692376">
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    <location><![CDATA[Grand Rapids, MI]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Feb 29 09:32:43 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ottilie comes in and ruins poor Charlottes life and gets to be the martyr? How the heck does that happen.<br/><br/>This book shows what happens when relationships go farther than they would normaly. There are so many extremes going on between the four main charecters in this book.<br/><br/>Good ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16692376">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5953165">
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    <body><![CDATA[Though his most famous work is of course Faust, Goethe wrote plenty of other excellent books. Apparently he was obsessed with alchemy and chemistry, hence the title of this delightful novel.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Passion contra social expectations. An &quot;introduction&quot; to relationships, love and the nature of LIFE. How we deal with it? Makes us who we are.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Home to one of my favorite quotes: &quot;those who live among palm trees never go unpunished.&quot;--or something to that effect...]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Tori]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dense, but a good psychological read.  Classic Goethe and his fascination with human emotion and behavior.]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Siobhan]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read it many years ago. It's time to read it again before I can really mark it as &quot;read&quot;.]]></body>
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