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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book is a must-read for any American in the post-WWII era. Framed as a collection of loosely-connected short stories, narrated from a single perspectivce, Mitchner weaves together themes of love, loss, and struggle with a lucid and sometimes technical commentary on the American war effo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5884316">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You always learn somehing when you read Michener. The stories were quite good but I found many of the characters not well developed.  I prefer his later books such as &quot; The Covenant&quot; or &quot;Poland&quot;.<br/>It did give me a better perspective of where USA was in relation to blacks and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75896771">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[SPOILERS<br/>========<br/>Overall I really liked this book.  Specifically, I liked how real it<br/>felt in the sense that all of the events definitely could have<br/>occurred.  The characters also felt very real in their thoughts,<br/>dialogue, and reactions to events.  This was the first &quot;war&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64144113">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book I have heard about for years and finally spurred myself to read - it did not disappoint. The characters and settings from the stage play and the movie are here but they are far from being central to the stories.  The book is like a cross between Hemingway and Cain - a product of its t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64618883">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have always wanted to read this, being a HUGE fan of the Rogers and Hammerstein musical adaptation.  The only thing I had heard about it was that the adaptation was very loose and that the book was pretty racist, reflecting the times.  I found both to be true.  It took awhile to get into it, but t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67101287">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the typical Michener epic scale of this book.   I used to sit down and read Michener for hours at a time, but parenting seems to mean I can only catch 1/2 hour to an hour here and there.   This book is perfect for this - there are a number of recurring characters which maintains that epic sca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37889332">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am pleasantly pleased with this book.  I have read lots of historical fiction on many topics but none from the South Pacific.  Granted, I appreciate a good war novel and most of the novels I have read have been about the Vietnam War.  But this was a well-written and well-balanced personal account ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43291141">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Tales of the South Pacific - Michener's first book is truly a gem. Compiled from articles he wrote for the Navy newspaper while serving in the South Pacific, he earned his first Pulitzer. RKO Films was quick to buy the rights thinking it would make a great movie. John Wayne and the Sands of Iwo Jimo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62958993">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[James Michener's first book.  Mostly a collection of stories of his experiences as a Navy Officer stationed in the South Pacific during WWII.  Great descriptions of the U.S. Navy assaults of the many Japnaese occupied islands, along with very colorful accounts of the Navy interacting with the native...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38695666">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating short stories set in the South Pacific during WWII. Better than most of his longer fiction.<br/>In the later chapters the interconnected stories start to carry more emotion and force, turning a light read into more impressive work. Wording is very reflective of the 1940s and shows the w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39323273">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Stunning!! Loved this book. All I knew about it was that it was the basis for Rodgers and Hammersteins South Pacific (actually its a small part of the book), but was completely taken in by the story of the miltary personel, nurses, and locals in these paradise islands during WW II. Totally captivati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55419987">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of Michener's earlier works. In fact, I think it might be his first published work. Its not one of his expansive novels, traversing multiple centuries, which eventually became his forte. Instead, South Pacific is a collection of short stories, all set in or around World War II, but each ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58082060">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like stories from this part of the world. I am intrigued with Pacific Island peoples and their cultures and how they fared through the years during WWII. I also like that it was a James Michener book and not a thousand pages long!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book.  If you are familiar with Michener, this is probably his best, if not then I highly recommend that you start here.<br/>The story covers a series of passages, mostly interrelated of a first person narrative on events that occured in the Pacific theater during WWII, primarily fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59458040">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A true classic from WW2 era.  I read this several years ago on a whim and was immediately entranced by it.  It has a little bit of everything in it: suspense, mystery, tiny bit of romance, war, suffering and human compassion.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love Michener but this was my least favorite but it was a good read about World War II in the South Pacific.  I loved the movie so I was interested in reading the inspiration for the movie.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This really reads more as a series of short stories along a common theme and with common characters rather than a novel.  Overall I enjoyed the read, and it was quite engaging in places. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Chesapeake so much, so I was psyched to read more Michener... but I could barely get through this book.  It took me 120 pages to be interested, and then I lost interest in the last 120 pages.   I was confused by who was telling the story, where they were (a map would have been really helpful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7764874">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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