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    <body><![CDATA[With this, Alan Hollinghurst becomes my favorite living novelist. For me the phrase means a feeling of excitement about what someone will write in the future, what new domains of experience they’ll claim. Martin Amis and Edmund White do not evoke this feeling any longer, though I revere them; Updi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68705090">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, I just re-read The Folding Star after coming across a review that interpreted the ending entirely differently than I did.  Can anyone share with me what they thought happened to Luc?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't finish this book.  <br/><br/>The writing is good, don't get me wrong on that account.  I want to read something else by this author, though.  The Folding Star manages to be both slow and predictable, with an unhealthy dose of obscure.  If I hadn't read some reviews of the book, I wouldn't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57187185">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of a pronouncedly gay man who spends the majority of his time having sex, thinking about sex, wanting sex, and specifically wanting sex with one specific individual with whom he falls in love almost instantaneously.  Homosexuality almost takes over the entire book, with multiple ostensibly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26511398">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Several years ago, I happened to pick up a paperback copy of Alan Hollinghurst's Swimming Pool Libraries at a used book store. It is deeply (mostly homo-) erotic and funny and an overall great read. Years later I passed it on to a couple of friends who enjoyed it as much as I did. My naughty book cl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8023802">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found out recently that this is a perfect novel to read on the beach. It's got everything you'd want in a bonkbuster: torrid gay sex, love intrigues, tragic deaths, secrets and a pervy main character obsessed with a 17-year-old boy (to the point of stealing his underwear and stalking him). It's Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37041794">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Hollinghurst (although I did see the adaptation of The Line of Beauty, which doesn't really count). The language alternately distracted me and charmed me. As I got further into the book, the suspense really sucked me in. And golly, what a surprising ending! I think I will be lookin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61514691">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not normally giving to skim-reading, but this tedious, incoherent, and over-long novel forced me into it. The tale of an English teacher’s obsession w/17-yo student, _The Folding Star_ is nasty-minded and small; a real waste of time &amp; major disappointment from an author who knows better.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Too much like &quot;Death in Venice.&quot;  Plus, it is a hard book to read during a pleasant summer afternoon.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read it the year it came out.  First book I recall reading that dealt with gay lives. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Naughty and complex.  Very entertaining company.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Folding Star]]>
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    <![CDATA[Edward Manners &#8212; thirty three and disaffected &#8212; escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure what to make of this book. It was illuminating and ruminating and ultimately rather confusing... Hollinghurst's narrator is a fascinating character full of good meaning and inaction... but frustrating at the same time.  Can you tell I'm confused?? I can't wait to read The Line of Beauty...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1270806">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's always the same with Alan Hollinghurst: attractive young man is fancied by less attractive gay man, agony and beauty ensue. What a great format - if you're a less attractive gay man. God only knows why straight people might read this.<br/><br/>Well written, though, and perfectly paced.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;...exposes us fearlessly to the consequences of unfulfillable, annihilating desire.&quot;  When I read this on the back cover I thought, hmm, better read this, it may involve some human emotions (after all, is there anything else worth reading about?).]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Folding Star: A Novel]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the great stylists in English today. Mostly uninteresting, though.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the idealized becomes realized.<br/>be careful who you fall in love with.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Folding Star: A Novel]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully written. Dark, disturbing, erotic.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A bit harder to consume than Swimming Pool Diaries, but hauntingly beautiful nonetheless. ]]></body>
    
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