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    <body><![CDATA[A book I've had on my bookshelves for some time but never got around to reading, dusted off while packing for a move. Perhaps not the ideal book or frame of mind to put yourself into as you move across the country and question your life and direction and the bland little corporate apartment you are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3310668">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very interesting book about a woman who rebels against what is expected of her and well, pays for it. What I loved is Ms. Rhys' language, accessible and enveloping. This book was written in the 1930's and even though we know what it was like for women back then, it's still slightly unbelievable to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51326178">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i am in the midst of reading all of rhys' work.  this is a dangerous thing to do and i may have to take a break from it.  rhys indelibly captures something very real about being a woman, having needs, disappointment, but she was also a miserable, lost creature, and the only hope in her books is the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47774243">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book about the true horrors of being a woman with no prospects in the early twentieth century.  I read it in a day and felt horribly depressed afterwards, but it's impossible to put down.  Julia's desperation is sickening, and you find yourself almost wishing she would give up, but the fact that s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70324423">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was super depressing. It was very bleak and made you never ever want to go to London or Paris again. Julia's situation made me feel miserable! And there were no admirable or sympathetic characters at all. The writing is good but the story is too sad for me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quick, gorgeously written, heartbreaking.  It's the kind of book that has you constantly thinking you're seeing the world more clearly through the narrator's eyes.  Love that kind of book. <br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm totally loving Jean Rhys!! But none of the libraries seems to have Wild Sargasso Sea...I might just end up buying my own copy!]]></body>
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    <review id="5946935">
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    <body><![CDATA[Rhys strikes staccato emotional chords, creating an odd little symphony of gloom.  Everything seems so basic, so bare in her prose, it insists upon the reader's attention.  The novel lightly anticipates humanity's mechanization during the interwar period, sketching out themes more grotesquely addres...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5946935">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book at a garage sale last week and I am so glad I did! The story is very bleak, but the insights into human behaviour are wonderful.  I really enjoyed this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a lot of Jean Rhys, and this is one of my faves.  Never a happy ending!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a near perfect work of art. there was one sentence in which she used the phrase in which or on which in a way which i did not like. that was one sentence out of 190 some odd pages that wasn't perfect. there was also a scene where i thought the characters were in a cab when they were actually in a re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63925709">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't help it,i just love her style and melancholy.the lady lived.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because head butler recommended it.  I enjoyed the spare, impressionistic writing style.  But as &quot;Tom&quot; said, it's a little symphony of gloom; I would add: to no purpose.  It's painful to watch someone get beaten down for stupid mistakes.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first Jean Rhys book I read and I think one of the more practical down to earth one.  This is sort of the middle stage between the tragic loss of innocence in VOYAGE IN THE DARK and then washed-up down and outness in GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My brother-in-law gave this to me with a stack of other books for my birthday.  This was my favorite.  Just read it.  You'll love it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Heartbreak &amp; despair salvaged by Rhys's intimate voice and pure, unflinching (and deceptively simple) prose. In my top ten.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i loved everything about this novella. <br/><br/>it is a short read! i will read it again.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually, I enjoyed this one better than Sargasso. Kind of puts you in a mood.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[how progressive she was for her time!  a lovely, dark and melancholic story indeed]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another essential Rhys read.]]></body>
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