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    <body><![CDATA[<em>a month of Sundays</em>: a cross between <em>winter light</em> (grim bergman movie about a priest who loses his faith) and <em>hot and saucy pizza girls</em> (70s porno)…  from some kind of desert sanitarium for holy men gone bad, reverend marshfield writes a memoir about his days of preaching fucking and sucking. one s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49150198">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this years ago and wanted to reread the novel to see if I would enjoy more now.<br/><br/>Updike's word-play is marvelous, but the book runs toward the turgid, with esoteric theological bouts featuring Tillich and Barth (among others), and paragraphs in French untranslated from Pascal. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19915330">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's slyly funny and well...pretty dirty. You don't read many books describing Reverends like this one. Updike really reaches for the ultimate lecherous protestant minister and I think he succeeds. Other reviewers have mentioned this book as a kind of Nabokov homage and I agree.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book for what it did to my manner of speaking and my use of language while I read it. This is the first piece of literature that I have read since completing my Ph.D. (and none that I can recall while earning the piled higher deeper). I wound myself up in it like satin sheets. I feel li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45907748">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Highly memorable, for its clever, goatish, and irreverent protagonist. Written in epistolary form, a conceit I find hard to resist.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most honest depictions of human weakness ever.  Love the humor and genius of his composition.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just like &quot;Of the Farm&quot; and &quot;Rabbit, Run&quot;--well-written, but putrid to me.  <br/><br/>I love/hate John Updike.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A rare occurrence here with Updike actually dividing his novel into chapters (each one representing a day in a single month). Not his most interesting outing about a priest dealing with his sexual frustrations in rehab. Although the ending is darkly spectacular.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first John Updike book and immediately I was hooked on his style of writing.  Believe it or not, but I read this for a book report in high school. Not exactly a G rated book, but I had a really cool English teacher. Definitely a good read. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Honeymoon reading, in my case, not that I was inspired by the main character's example. But you're not supposed to be anyway. Extremely well written, inappropriate, maybe shocking if you disapprove of pastoral sexual activity.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Updike, but the most clever thing about this book is its title.  nice prose, but blah!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Updike is prosy, no doubt.  The sermons in the novel are wonderful and insightful.  The story works most of the time but the ending felt forced.  It was believable but whimsical.  I could have done with either a solid dose of despair or hope--but not both.  ]]></body>
    
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