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    <body><![CDATA[I chose to read this book in high school as one of those free-reading things for which you later have to give a presentation. This is a book about Africa for white people who want to go on a safari and see the cool animals, which is basically what the author did. I kinda hated Karen Blixen for her c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11647602">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book captures the charm, the majesty, the beauty of Africa and her native people. A beautiful read full of stories about the tensions arising from the colonization of Kenya, and it's benefits (things like better medical care).<br/><br/>However, as far as biography, I found the book rather sha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18170769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has been on my &quot;must read&quot; list forever. When I picked it up, I'm embarrassed to say, I wasn't immediately aware that it was a memoir. I knew about the movie, and just assumed it was a novel based on Dinesen's experiences. So - it felt a little slow in the beginning, as I got my beari...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10864671">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, I'll admit it. I really didn't love this book. I didn't even finish it. I am adding it as read because I read more than half of it and I should get something out of it since I won't be getting my time wasted back. I'm sure you are supposed to read this for the lovely descriptions of Africa (and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28856443">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a memoir written about her experiences in Kenya Africa before and  just shortly after WWI.  She owns a large coffee plantation by herself.  There is a husband mentioned briefly but he is gone, but she never elaborates.  The book covers the same time period as The Flame Tree of Thicka, which I really...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26396658">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Out of Africa is Karen Blixen's memoir about her years in Africa, writing as Isak Dinesen. She recounts the world of Africa, specifically Kenya. It is, like the England of her friend Denys Finch-Hatton, &quot;a world that no longer existed&quot; even then and certainly as she left it. The memoir is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19875468">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first chose this book because the english section in the french bookshop was very limited. However only after a few pages &quot;Out of Africa&quot; really made me stay in my chair, very unwilling to put it down. It is beautifully written and gives such an insight into the colonial life in Kenya in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2199087">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first ran across Karen Blixen's name in the Janet Flanner/ Solita Solano files in the Library of Congress unpublished manuscripts division.  She was a compatriot of theirs in the twenties in Paris.  This is the only book of hers that I have read.  I enjoyed her descriptions of the wildlife and nat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26349682">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's a reason why people keep reading this book decade after decade. It's a masterpiece, a memoir about life on a farm in Africa that is filled with such humanity, generosity, love, and nostalgia that it is impossible to resist. Dinesen does wonders at telling a rather simple story in ways that k...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38201408">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Author is a brave woman running a farm in East Africa during World War I.  She is super smart but rather dry and especially in the first half of the book, impersonal.  Even if one hasn't seen the Hollywood movie, you can't help but ask yourself &quot;Where the hell is Robert Redford?&quot;  And in f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21060715">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[B Isak Dinesen moved to Africa to farm with her husband, who she separated from, and lived alone on her farm with &quot;the Natives&quot; or &quot;my squatters,&quot; having her lover visit her occasionally. It's a very interesting portrayal of a white European colonist living in Africa, with her un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17632237">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Out of Africa, once read, is not easily forgotten. Karen Blixen writing under the name Isak Dinesen tells the story of the 17 years on her coffee plantation in Africa. This is a book written from the heart and my emotions were moved more than once by the prose and thoughts on the written page. What ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75276832">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Dinesen's descriptive writing. She is a poet. Though written from a colonist view point she did feel at home in Africa and I think the land spoke to her soul and her new sense of identity that she found there. My favorite quote is where she writes of the sadness of relocating the natives to t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58628841">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>A Fictional Dialogue, Anticipatory of Your Objections to the Present Use of a Book Forum as a Film Forum</em><br/><br/>You: Greg, you read <u>Out of Africa</u>?<br/>Me: No, but I saw the movie of the same name this weekend.<br/>You: Why are you telling me this? Particularly here?<br/>Me: Because no one rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51679823">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all-time favorite books.  I find it far more interesting and appealing than her moralistic fantasies.  What a fascinating woman she was.<br/><br/>If you only know this as the film, you've missed a lot.  Yes the film was visually gorgeous, but it's a mere shadow of the book.  And pity poo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5589954">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen is on the list of 1000 books you need to read before you die.   As fascinated as I am with literature depicting the African savannah (since so few books seem to deal with this area), I struggled with Dinesen's work, primarily because I found the narrative hollow and uni...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42453974">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have no idea why my mom recommended this book to me.  A white British colonist tells the story of her privileged life on her coffee plantation in Kenya.  She writes some great imagery about the Kenyan landscape and tells funny stories about animals, except that her idea of the landscape and animal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54678234">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book.  If I had written it, I would have done it much more conventionally, more as an adventure story.  But Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen's real name) has a completely unique voice.  Her love of Africa is so vivid that sometimes it's painful.  I want to reread it, but it took so much out o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9564493">more...</a>]]></body>
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