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  <title><![CDATA[What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has known none but the most solitary of lifestyles until Sheba Hart joins St. George's. Starting by sharing lunches, then family events, the new art teacher draws Barbara into a touching confidence. Unbeknownst to their colleagues, however, another relationship blossoms meanwhile: Sheba has begun a passionate affair with an underage male student. When the details come to light and Sheba falls prey to the inevitable media circus, Barbara decides to write an account in her friend's defense-revealing not only Sheba's secrets but her own. 
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">6</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2003</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Zoë Heller]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Jan 16 09:47:52 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 16 13:42:26 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An unforgiving, cold-eyed, wickedly beautiful little book.  <br/><br/>A warning: if you have ever been crushingly lonely -- particularly if you have, on occasion, feebly attempted to rationalize that loneliness as a burden of your superior and isolating intelligence -- then I suspect that you, lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12668046">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38017811">
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 17 23:57:34 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 24 02:12:35 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I very much enjoyed the movie so I was slightly nervous about reading the book ~ how could it be better?<br/>Well it is ~ the narrative method is so much clearer and it makes for a wonderful read.  Not only is there the fascination with Sheba and her affair, but also the layer created by Barbara's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38017811">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38960619">
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 30 14:13:35 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 02 08:15:22 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Is it fair to say that a book is predictable when you've already seen the movie version?  I think that anybody who's dabbled in the literature of stalker creepiness (e.g. Pale Fire) knows what it's all about:  stalkers don't ever recognize themselves as stalkers; stalkers justify their stalkiness on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38960619">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28533797">
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    <name><![CDATA[Traci ]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Orange, CA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 28 13:25:03 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 28 13:50:34 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was amazing and that the movie, while different, really got to the heart of what the book was about-- not an easy task for such a rich and complex read.  The thing that I thought was really amazing about this theme, in both the book and movie, was the way that it questioned our p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28533797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2328820">
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 24 10:33:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 23 04:11:30 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Grim, grim, grim. Here's an unstinting, gaze-unaverted look at the nastiness, perversion and self-deluding aspects of human nature.  One woman would do anything to keep a friendship, another would do anything to seduce a young pupil.  Zoe Heller renders all of this in tense, compelling, page-turning...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2328820">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1954993">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jun 14 06:30:31 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the book then watched the movie. Okay, I did it the other way around, but this is practically a textbook example of how to succeed with a screen adaptation. Normally we're all whinging that the movie is not as good as the book, but here, playwright Patrick Marber’s screenplay is actually su...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954993">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49638874">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderfully-written, brilliantly-drawn characters who each vie for the title of 'most despicable person in the book' as they live through a most despicable situation of a middle-aged teacher having an affair with a young pupil and the Machiavellian machinations of an older, bitter teacher, a repress...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49638874">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2719245">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 12 09:40:11 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a poorly written book, but I had a difficult time empathizing with the characters. When I read a book, typically I like to come away with something: more knowledge, deeper understanding, empathy, or just a riotous good time. None of that happened with this book. I just felt empty and sad, and ve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2719245">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51047196">
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 31 12:06:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 31 12:09:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm reading The Believers right now.  I'm so glad she came out with a new book.  Zoe Heller is an amazing writer.<br/>A social satire, a must-read.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Sep 04 19:09:27 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is outstanding! A writer's tour-de-force. One of the best first-person narratives by a deranged character since Edgar Allan Poe. Page 197 and the first paragraph of page 198 contain the greatest testimony of human anguish that I've ever read. Brava Ms. Heller!]]></body>
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    <review id="42846712">
    <user id="611408">
    <name><![CDATA[Carrie]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[NB - I wrote this review before I saw the film (indeed, before there was a film, so I didn't mention it)<br/><br/>New book! - This is the story of a teacher, Sheba, who has an affair with her sixteen-year old student. It is told by her friend and colleague, Barbara, and it becomes clear over the c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42846712">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76193913">
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not really sure what I was expecting with this book.  I had a cold and had just finished reading a classic so I picked it up for something relatively easy yet entertaining to read.  That is certainly what I got.  The novel is extremely easy to read and the narrative flows brilliantly - I almost ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76193913">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66176988">
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 04 12:33:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Barbara Covett, the narrator of Heller's novel, appears to be an opinionated but harmless, even kindly, older woman who has taken an interest in the naiive struggling new teacher Sheba. It is only as the novel progresses that the reader begins to realize Barbara's true nature, that she is in fact ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66176988">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63258442">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those disquieting novels that proffers its apparent theme then cunningly reveals itself to be about something else altogether. As its title and first pages suggest, its surface plot concerns a tabloid-pleasing sizzler of a scandal. Sheba Hart, a 41-year-old pottery teacher, arrives at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63258442">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63140280">
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    <body><![CDATA[Beginnings. . .<br/><br/>The book starts off as a diary where the date &quot;1st March 1998&quot; is written and is a particular of the book, its could be therefore assumed that it is also a promise of the events that happened that day.  Zoe Heller plunges us straight into the story and begins at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63140280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50682648">
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Notes on a Scandal&quot; tells the story of two slightly with completely skewed and slightly perverse world views.  One obsessively justifies her love affair with a fifteen year old, and the other chronicles her betrayal of her best friend without realizing its implications.  It was very dark,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50682648">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What was she thinking: Notes on a Scandal, by Zoe Heller.  B-plus.<br/>Downloaded from Audible.com.  Narrated by Nadia May.<br/>This book was made into a movie.  Somehow I think the movie would have been better than the book.  But this is a character study really of a middle-aged single female tea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42728353">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If there is one book a single woman in her 30s should <em>not</em> read, it’s this one.  Not that I’m in my 30s, of course, but I have always been told my maturity exceeds my age, so for all intents and purposes, I may as well be 30.  I hang out with people in their 30s.  Who have husbands.  And ex-husba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41545512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never thought I would side with or empathize with such a manipulative character.  It is obvious that Barbara Covett (such a fitting surname), wormed her way into the life of Sheba Hart in such a clever and subtle way that it seemed natural to Sheba, befriending someone in a new workplace.  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74003032">more...</a>]]></body>
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