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  <title><![CDATA[Her]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;p&gt;A surreal semi-autobiographical blackbook  record of a semi-mad period of my life, in that  mindless, timeless state most romantics pass  through, confusing flesh madonnas with spiritual ones. This is how the author describes this  extraordinary expatriate novel.&lt;/p&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1960</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, although published in english by an american author has all the awkwardness of a russian translation, as well as the russians' penchant for repetition. ferlinghetti seems to use this device unwittingly, however, and not because he is as the russians were, thinking that everyone else is to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57122584">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I think this is one of the earliest books I bought and still have. I can remember the smell of it. I can remember a warm Summer day reading this at a picnic with my girlfriend..<br/>The distant strangeness of those fluid little run-on sentences<br/>and jumbly bumbly perceptions.. mmm.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 01 19:23:25 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[man, don't remember much of anything about this, set in france i believe, a novel.  yikes.  i remember not liking it then which i can only imagine wouldn't make it any better now?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is reading madness.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This &quot;novel&quot; reads as one long rambling sentence, and while that can be very trying and annoying as an experiment, the writing is beautiful and intriguing.  It's sort of about how we make our memories or desires of people into objects, but then it's about everything else.  Or it's really j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2237709">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5472552">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[only four chapters, stream of consciousness narrative that will pummel you with one powerful image after the other; surprising, involved, not for those who aren't active readers....<br/><br/>one big prose poem to say the least.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely brilliant! A complete self-indulgent submersion into pure beatnik decadence, into sexy poetic prose that flows like wine through cobbled streets lined with artists and dreamers...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I need a week and a bottle of absinthe to finish this one, and I do mean that as a compliment and excuse for not finishing it.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[hard to follow, scatterbrained, parts were better than others, some repetitive chunks, some repetitive chunks]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my new favorite book of all time(for this month)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess I read it at the right time.]]></body>
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