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    <body><![CDATA[Before starting to read this book, I read some (very few) comments on it. Most of them talked about a love story and about humor... Maybe it's me, but I didn't find anything funny in this book. And I would hardly call it a &quot;love story&quot;. I would rather say it's a book about death and violen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65867998">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like much of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15496.Amos_Oz" title="Amos Oz">Amos Oz</a>'s work, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103386.The_Spiderwick_Chronicles_Boxed_Set_The_Spiderwick_Chronicles_Books_1_5_" title="The Spiderwick Chronicles Boxed Set (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Books 1-5) by Holly Black">Black Box</a> is not about the story. Indeed, the book is built around the premise that unresolved childhood trauma brings disaster to all the people around when the child grows up, but in truth the book is all about people: dysfunctional people who hit, scream, beg, and bla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65239058">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A heartcrushing family drama unfolds through letters. This book makes me want to buy a set of waterman stationery, and start a correspondence with friends, enemies and ex-lovers.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Goed boek. Heel mooi en boeiend. Via brieven en telegrammen worden alle gebeurtenissen beschreven. Dit geeft een dieper inzicht in het denk-en gevoelsleven van de hoofdpersonen. Ook een mooie spanningsopbouw. Hoe zit het nu met die relatie tussen de hoofdpersonen en wat is die advocaat toch allemaal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62653107">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;With all due respect to Tolstoy I'm telling you the opposite is true: Unhappy people are mainly plunged in conventional suffering, living out in sterile routine one of five or six threadbare cliches of misery. <br/>Whereas happiness is a rare, fine vessel, a sort of Chinese vase, and the few ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/173631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42338792">
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    <body><![CDATA[Kept my interest until the very end, but I'm not sure I actually understood the ending. *shrug*<br/>Still I liked the characters - they were both maddening and engaging.  It also gave me a renewed appreciation for letter writing and a fond (artificial) longing for the telegram.  (Not that I've ever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42338792">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this a long time ago, but I remember being really engaged with the story as it unfolds in letters from various people. The characters are extremely different, one from another, which makes them memorable and their interactions interesting. Characters' qualities and relationships work on anoth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27182397">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2793123">
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of a divorce and a failing family told entirely through written correspondences between the two characters. Well, not entirely. It's an interesting concept and I was disappointed how Oz lost it and at numerous points had his characters writing overly-descriptive, novel-esque letters to eac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2793123">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A dramatic love story, written in an excellent manner, in which the characters torture themselves in the name of love. At a certain point, you can't be sure if love and hate are different notions. Although they are divorced, Alex and Ilana can't go on with their new lives..the past keeps them captiv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3693537">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27466635">
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    <body><![CDATA[I barely remember this book, which might be a bad sign. It was... about a college professor at a thinly-veiled Northwestern? And Israel? And a divorce? <br/><br/>I know I read it the summer after my first year of college, which would make it the same summer I first read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Love in the Time of Cholera" title=" Love in the Time of Cholera"> Love in the Time of Cholera</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27466635">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[O estilo narrativo (através de cartas) é muito criativo, mas os personagens não são agradáveis e o enredo é um bocado enfadonho (ainda mais quando contado através de cartas de personagens pouco agradáveis). Apesar de ser uma narrativa curta, ainda assim parece longa. Funcionaria mais em uma ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24049621">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Demorei pra pegar o pique do livro, mas depois que peguei, devorei como se não houvesse amanhã. Parei para eventuais respirações profundas, já que uma história envolvente e determinada como essa requer um pouco de bom senso antes de avançar.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought that this kind of novels are not written any more. But Amos Oz revives the genre with a splendid book. I really liked it mostly due to the style of the writing.<br/>My copy of this book is translated into romanian.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful book by Amos Oz - documents the demise of a marriage through letters,  the &quot;black box.&quot;  I was struck by how Oz interweaved vivid characters and stark prose.  Really enjoyable and emotionally powerful.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Letters betwen a woman, ex-husband, their son, current husband, and lawyer. I wasn't crazy about the voices, but they are meant to play and lie, so they accomplished irritating me...A well-told story. <br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A novel in letters from and to the main characters, each of whom represents a different side of Israel, but all of whom care deeply for each other.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't they offer six stars? This is really one of my favorite books ever that I lent to someone else and miss every time I think about. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Exploration of extremely vivid characters through their letters and telegrams to one another.  Oz is an amazing story teller.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sad to say, I couldn't finish it - paying a late fee at the library cause I kept trying - but couldn't do it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mensen zijn zo verschillend en kunnen zo hard zijn voor elkaar.<br/>Het einde is beetje vreemd. ]]></body>
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