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    <body><![CDATA[My new favorite book.  Was completely thrown off by the ending at first, but realize you must read this book twice to get it.  After I read the book I read this critique:  <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_n2_v40/ai_16530446/?tag=content;col1." title="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_n2_v40/ai_16530446/?tag=content;col1.">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0...</a>  Now I'm reading the book again.  This book is brilliant.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79311479">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very strange book I read during my mssspent youth. I was really into Lord of the Flies  and found this in the used book store where worked and gave it a go. I seem to remember the main character turning into a lobster or something. Another book i read way to young to appreciate. I may re-read it w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61066662">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The four stars mean &quot;really like&quot; this book.  I am not sure that &quot;like&quot; is a term to be used for so intense a book.  I read it one morning while waiting for a friend who had summer classes when I did not.  It is only about 200 pages long and moves quickly.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Preferred this to LOTF, though I would recommend it (LOTF) as well. A man confronted with his mortality, forces beyond his control, and the underlying nature of himself, and presumably all men.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My senses changed irretrievably.<br/>I started to see and feel different things.<br/>One of my favourites.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather charts. To drink there is a pool of rain water; to eat there are weeds and sea-anemones. Through the long hours with only himself to talk to, Martin must try to assemble the truth of his fate, piece by terrible piece.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Impressive, like a nightmare. The opposite of a pageturner; I struggled through it, but that felt appropriate. I loved the style, the images.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in elementary, maybe fourth grade or so. I challenged my older brother and told him I was a better reader than he was and bet him I could finish this book and he couldn't. I won. I think this is probably still the most challenging book I've ever read. I wonder if I would understand ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2318561">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a dark work with many of golding's motifs concerning the savage man and the absence of god. only one character, stream-of-consciousness, stranded on a rock in the uncharted sea. man versus nature at its cruelest. despite the limitations of the plot, the character moves through revelations and develo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16562362">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A stunning, hallucinatory tour-de-force from the writer better known for 'Lord of the Flies'.<br/>I found this book through a mention in Richard Adams' 'Plague Dogs', in which Adams basically said &quot;It's amazing, and you should read it once you've finished this one&quot;.  Good advice, so I'm p...]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;The sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer is miraculously cast up on a huge, barren rock in mid-Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold, and the terror of his isolation. At the core of this raging tale of physical and psychological violence lies Christopher Martin&#8217;s will to live as the sum total of his life.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thickly William Golding-esque, but not an easy read. Often inexplicable, but certainly ends in style! At a little over 200 pages, it doesn't take long to devour, so don't give up on this one if you've begun.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd read this book once when I was in the 7th or 8th grade, it'd stuck in my mind all these years so I'd read it again.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;The sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer is miraculously cast up on a huge, barren rock in mid-Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold, and the terror of his isolation. At the core of this raging tale of physical and psychological violence lies Christopher Martin&#8217;s will to live as the sum total of his life.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked Lord of the Flies, so that's why I decided to read another of his novels. Waaay too abstract for me. Man vs. nature / God / his own will to survive. blah blah blah. [snore]]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Possibly my favourite Golding novel.  Not to spoil it for anyone wishing to read it, but it's the one book that you have to read twice to really understand]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[An incredibly cerebral novel from William Golding--as you might expect--and not an easy read, but well worth it! The ending will shock you!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[How does William Golding manage to squeeze so many life lessons into one incisive book?]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather charts. To drink there is a pool of rain water; to eat there are weeds and sea-anemones. Through the long hours with only himself to talk to, Martin must try to assemble the truth of his fate, piece by terrible piece.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books.  It is so simple, yet completely terrifying.]]></body>
    
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