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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting insight into the treatment of dissident writers by the communist regime in China. The sexual abandon that the protagonist surrenders himself to seems conditioned by the constant threat that tomorrow, in his world, is uncertain. This theme occurs in novels I have read portraying simila...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47385000">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first posting was as follows:<br/><br/>So far, I'm not highly impressed but I'm only 50 pages in.  Got up with amazing amounts of energy yesterday at 4:25am, and so I grabbed this off my shelf as I didn't want to turn on the lights in our bedroom to find Ovid, cuz then Nick would wake up.  The ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16673694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually preferred this to Soul Mountain.. Gentler somehow. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book I've read by author (first was Soul Mountain and equally as good). One Man's Bible is a profound meditation on the essense of writing, on exile, on the effects of political oppression on the human spirit, and how the human spirit can triumph. Great detail of China's revolutio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22290516">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[China under Communism was seriously depressing!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard to do justice to a book that somehow balances the dialogue between individual and history.  At home simultaneously drawing from the most ancient of Confucian texts as well as the dilemmas and aporias of postmodernism, this is a great novel for anyone looking to not quite get out of the Western ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4488841">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gao Xingjian has rapidly become one of my favorite authors. His prose is very controlled, but (cliche alert) evocative of powerful emotions. His topic (at least in the two books I've read) seems to be nothing less than the nature of man as illustrated by his experiences during the Chinese Cultural R...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/829457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Translation from the Chinese into English. I always wonder how true to the original story a translation is. <br/><br/>I found this book to be slow and tedious reading. It seems to journal a lifelong obsession with masturbation and sex. I suspect its portrayal of life in Maoist China was dead on, h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16348580">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm about one third of the way through and I'm not sure I'm going to make it much further. I appreciate the use of the third person narrative to express his disassociation to his own life but perhaps at the same time, it's too effective because it just isn't engaging me at all. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I find that there can never have existed a more unsympathetic society on the face of the Earth than China during the cultural revolution. It was a highly literary read and the use of language and style took some time getting used to, but well worth the effort.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not the thick swamplike books that usually win Nobel prizes.   So far its very readable and an interesting tale about living with memories of China. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this one.  I have Soul Mountain on my shelves, but have never been able to get through it.  You... Me... I... He... a study in pronouns.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of those books that just loses you in the lives of the characters. Thoughtful and thought provoking.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Difficult to read.  I can't tell if it's the translation or what...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pursuit of artistic truth is a beautiful solitude.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely moving and beautiful. ]]></body>
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