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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Clear, carefully crafted stories of 3 women, whose relatively ordinary lives and minds Stein invests with extraordinary interest. Excellent entree to author's later work.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1909</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[No, I just don't think I should.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So, I got through the first story, &quot;The Good Anna,&quot; without too much strain thanks to the helpful introduction in this edition that explains Stein's repetitive writing style. I wasn't particularly impressed, but I enjoy reading older fiction as much for the window into how life looked in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29076952">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have always been intrigued by Gertrude Stein and her Lost Generation expat comrades, and I have enjoyed reading some of her poetry, autobiography/memoir, and experimental fiction in the past.  I needed something to pass the time while riding a commuter train, so when I chanced upon a copy of this,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36117224">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Technically I didn't read all of this, but I have decided will never finish Getrude Stein’s Three Lives - my life is just too damn short.<br/><br/>The book consists of three short stories/novellas about three women. The first, which I read in its entirety was titled “The Good Anna” and was a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46511938">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun May 10 16:13:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are many readers of many books, and some of the readers of them think, this or that book, whatever it happens to be, is a book that when I read it I find in it something that matters deep down to me and for me. For some of the people there are many such books that do matter to them and for the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55601835">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Apr 24 23:41:53 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The content is horribly dry but the novel is nonetheless interesting due to its form. I love Gertrude Stein as a personality but I find her writing very inaccessible (that's her whole point, yes, I get it). I enjoy a challenge, but Three Lives in particular was tough to get through. Knowing Stein wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53266509">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this with the thought that I would read books that came out exactly 100 years ago ... and all I can say is, sorry, Gertrude. Maybe this was before you met Alice and broadened your horizons.<br/><br/>The first of these stories about everyday women was The Good Anna, a portrait of a single...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56335789">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a nifty little edition of Three Lives. The introduction by poet Lyn Hejinian helped me appreciate the development of the odd and unique writing style of Gertrude Stein. Stein admired Cezanne's ability to convey his subject's inner experience, to paint his portraits in time as it were through...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60254848">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68300677">
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 20 23:31:09 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stein wrote this as she was still struggling to find her voice.  As a racist, sexist, anti-Semite Jewish lesbian, finding her voice proved to be a challenging task.  The most intriguing story is Melanctha--a heterosexual, racist re-telling of her own first love triangle, captured less eloquently in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68300677">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jul 29 21:22:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The &quot;incessant repetition&quot; gimmick (I don't want to dignify it by calling it an &quot;experiment&quot;) is an utter failure, but the first story, &quot;The Good Anna,&quot; is actually pretty good in spite of that.  &quot;Melanctha,&quot; however, may well be the worst thing I've ever read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65493759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44427421">
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  <date_added>Mon Jan 26 13:21:19 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I mistakenly thought 3 novellas would be a quick, easy read. And, perhaps, if there was a software package that could delete repetitive phrases it would have been a much shorter read. But I did finish it. I did want to quit or move on in the midst of Melanctha's thing, but I continued on.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44427421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21549270">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat May 03 20:35:31 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein was a large, generous American woman who was a writer and a great lover of the good, warm, echoing-round sunshine of her own rosy prose.  Gertrude Stein lived in Paris for many years and while she lived in Paris Gertrude Stein did write about serious, good, innocent women who were alw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21549270">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76829238">
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    <name><![CDATA[Chelsea]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Painfully boring. I was really looking forward to reading this, as it's my first effort into Gertrude Stein, but it's not even worth pushing through. I've stopped reading it and don't plan to ever go back. The content is incredibly dry and the writing is plain and uninspired.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Estilo que a princípio parece nada, de tão orgânico. O recurso da repetição causa estranheza e algumas interrogações. Mas o que realmente importa dessas 3 vidas é Melantcha, uma das melhores histórias que eu já li. ]]></body>
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    <review id="36036599">
    <user id="862204">
    <name><![CDATA[Peter Landis]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stein heavily influenced Ernest Hemingway.  However, In reading these three stories, I can not help but feel like Stein is a parody of Hemingway, as crazy as that sounds.  I guess Hemingway saw the potential in what Stein was doing, and then whittled it down and refined it to the point that Stein ap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36036599">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56389011">
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    <body><![CDATA[Once I realized that this was literary cubism and that this was the way Hemingway tried to write, this work exploded in wonder for me.  It is not always the easiest thing to read, but not all of Picasso is lovely, either.]]></body>
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    <review id="75446882">
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    <name><![CDATA[Scroutch]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Melanctha was a very short story that was good. Melanctha was a very short story that was repetitive but good. Melanctha was a story about a woman whose life was very short, repetitive, and not always good. ]]></body>
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    <review id="46918010">
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked 3 Lives, Gertrude Stein.  I really liked 3 Lives, Gertrude Stein, even though it was a little repetitive.  It was a little repetitive but made me think.  It made me think, Gertrude Stein, that you are really quite a genius because it is very hard to write this way, Gertrude Stein.  Ge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46918010">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An essay on Three Lives which I wrote exists here:<br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://greeninteger.blogspot.com/2008/02/distribution-and-equilibration-in.html" title="http://greeninteger.blogspot.com/2008/02/distribution-and-equilibration-in.html">http://greeninteger.blogspot.com/2008/02...</a><br/><br/>Please note the Green Integer edition!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a letdown. I guess I anticipated Gertrude Stein being this incredible author, and my first encounter with her was a little underwhelming. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah  Gertrude Stein. Probably one of the most brilliant writers in American History. For me, however, Melanctha went a little over my head. The repetitious phrases and passages, the crude racism that may or may not have been a comment on racial stereotyping, but was still very crude nonetheless, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35362225">more...</a>]]></body>
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