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  <title><![CDATA[The Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library Classics)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up with some trepidation, assuming that it would be full of stolid German angst and that I would give up after a couple of pages.  However, it's a perfect psychological portrait!  I loved it.  Werther isn't an entirely sympathetic character (he has the odd Kevin the Teenager moment) bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2660834">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thackeray wrote this very glib verse synopsis of the tale:<br/><br/>Werther had a love for Charlotte<br/>  Such as words could never utter;<br/>Would you know how first he met her?<br/>  She was cutting bread and butter.<br/><br/>Charlotte was a married lady,<br/>  And a moral man was Werthe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3066648">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3004875">
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 12 17:50:07 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story reminds me a little of dearly beloved Dostoevsky; poor sod in a love fit over a girl. Dosotevsky distracts this story line with depth, but Goethe does the opposite. Werther, pathetic and pitiful. Just get over it! But he doesn't. <br/><br/>Goethe was before the advent of psychology, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3004875">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Siempre me he considerado una romántica, o cuando menos mínimamente sensible. Me emociono con momentos extraños en las películas, digo, se me pone china la piel, me gustan los días de primavera, y el invierno a veces me pone medio triste. Y tengo algunos días en donde me siento más emocional ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46018426">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1488512">
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    <body><![CDATA[Most beautiful book I've ever read. Goethe's style and prose is incredible. I'm not sure how well it translates to English, having read it in Dutch and German, but I'm sure there are many competant translators out there. Anyone who's not read this is really, really missing out as it's of an unequall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1488512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful, beautiful language from wordsmith Goethe.  A narrator (the story unfolds through the letters we read, from Werther to a friend) who is a beautiful character, exposing young, ever-fluctuating, inspiring, and sometimes unstable emotions ('young emotions' in that they are the sorts of emotio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11789049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9148875">
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    <body><![CDATA[For being written in 1774, this German novella is a timeless classic. It is often described as a romance or tragic love story, but I'd have to disagree with that description. What I experienced was a case study in severe depression and angst, not &quot;love.&quot; But that's just semantics. Goethe w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9148875">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74609310">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's definately a masterpiece of its age, but I can't count how many times throughout the book I wanted to shake Werther by the arm or better so, slap him it the face. The characters are just unbelievablly stupid. I know that the times were different, but still they should know better. And the fact ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74609310">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 25 06:35:28 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When The Sorrows came out it got the reputation of having inspired a number of copy-cat suicides (not true), but I've wondered for awhile what I would find inspiring in it.  Werther sees so much in people, in nature, but his obsession with feeling, his infatuation with the sublime, his complete impa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19623759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32746360">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[1774. Most people know what this book is about before they read it I think, but if you don't here come spoilers: it's about Werther, who falls in love with a woman engaged to another and eventually offs himself. Might sound kinda pathetic, but the character and the writing make this little book a ge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32746360">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3431652">
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    <body><![CDATA[werther's descent is incredible to behold and i understand now why barthes was so keen on citing his behavior.  i'd also never read goethe before and was floored by the use of language, which ( even though i finished this a few weeks ago) i recall as solid and lush all at the same time.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3431652">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19837516">
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think I've been this annoyed by a main character since &quot;The Catcher in the Rye.&quot;  Werther is probably one of the most irritating, whiney bitches in the history of literature.  I never once felt an ounce of pity for this obsessive, creepy guy, and I can understand completely why the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19837516">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Sorrows Of Young Werther is the precursor for all of today's teenage rants on internet blogs about love and its hardships, and it is an utterly enthralling read. Geothe has really been denied his proper acknowledgement as an author, where usually the only required reading of his tends to be a sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1531753">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, what beautiful prose this is that borders on the poetic! More, what perfect tragedy to concern the Shakespearean minded. Soon after my journey began I came to be aware of a fact I had previously only hoped for: it was not written so much as a tragical romance, but more as an exploration of human...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46828642">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Wilhelm, was ist unserem Herzen die Welt ohne Liebe! Was eine Zauberlaterne ist ohne Licht! Kaum bringst du das Lämpchen hinein, so scheinen dir die buntesten Bilder an deine weiße Wand! Und wenn's nichts wäre als das, als vorübergehende Phantome, so macht's doch immer unser Glück, wenn w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38800846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Goethe is a book I must have been side-stepping for years. It seems like someone I know would have recommended it to me at some point as a &quot;you need to read this... it's so you&quot; suggestion. But alas, I'm left to wonder where this story has been all my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72457969">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book which I want to recommend as strongly as I can, but I also want to be sure not to recommend it under any false pretenses.  The story is one of the most clichéd ever: a young poet falls in love with a woman he can't have, drives himself mad over it and commits suicide. <br/><br/>I'l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60401818">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Werther</em> has two excellent excuses for the appearance of triteness: it is both a parody and a foundational work of the genre it most closely represents, the sensitive-youth-too-gentle-for-this-world tragedy. Yet in the end, triteness is a quality that cannot really exist in appearance only: if a book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62329561">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[“Werther” ou “Os sofrimentos do jovem Werther” é um romance trágico autobiográfico na 1ª parte e é-nos contado pelas cartas que Werther envia ao seu amigo Guilherme (o destinatário da maior parte das cartas), contudo não lemos as respostas de Guilherme, algumas vezes conseguimos deduz...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60753984">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't care for the morose and often absurd sentimentality of Werther, but I suppose a reader's disgust is purposeful and meant as a warning. I also had reservations about the large portion of Ossian (considering Macpherson's deception); then I realized how <em>a propos</em> a fatuous bit of poetry can ser...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44496835">more...</a>]]></body>
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