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    <body><![CDATA[I feel almost guilty recommending this book SO highly, because I feel that my personal connection to it is so dependant upon some personal correlation - to throw in the (non-dramatic) spoiler: the scene in which the protagonist has a FLASH moment of 'break-through' clarity while in the shower..... h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26610563">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Could someone please explain the last Chapter to me? Don't want to spoil it for anyone, and I have a theory and a problem with it. Just like Bennett at one point not being sure if his problem is a good one and there is a comment on it by another character. My rating of the entire book could be borde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48253456">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book up years ago because I really enjoyed Einstein's Dreams, also by Lightman.  I even took a chance and recommended it for my book group even though I had not read it.  Note to self: don't do that anymore.  This book reminded me of one of those independent films that seems to start i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75042831">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book gets three stars, but one the stars is a nostalgia star.  From age 16 or so, when I first read it, this was my favorite book.  Namely because I didn't read very many books at that point in my life.  It resonated with my angst- and love-ridden soul because the main character, Bennett Lang, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23877282">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bennett Lang is a physicist who has used science throughout his life; in fact, science has <em>been</em> his life, and everything else has been secondary.  This is most evident in his realizations throughout time that he just does not understand his surroundings - his family is filled with contradictions, in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32320267">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The author's other works have been compared to Calvino, but I just didn't see it in this book. It's not surprising that a physicist wrote this book; it's very mechanical. The story is very cut and dry, the characters are caricatures, and the only thing exciting happening is the occassional love affa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82095984">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Einstein's Dreams was a little jewel so I thought I'd try another by Lightman. This one says it's a clash between the absolutes of science and the vagaries of human experience--that seems about right. It's actually a nice, simple story. Lightman is not deep and convoluted; he writes nice stuff and I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66036610">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Throughout his life, Bennett &quot;Benito&quot; Long pursues a vision that   compels him to become a scientist and that transforms the everyday   world into one of purity, beauty, and order, whose very allure lies in   its unattainable ideal. Reprint. <em>NYT. K. PW. </em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't enjoy this novel as much as Lightman's other (Einstein's Dreams), but I did enjoy reading it. I found it interesting to see life, love, and humanity from the point of view of a scientist.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Good Benito]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Einstein's Dreams but this one just didn't have any of the same kind of life to it.  At least it was short.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A wee book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my equivalent to Thomas Gainsborough's &quot;The Blue Boy, which I remember seeing at the Huntington Library when I was 12 or 13, and The Bell Jar was &quot;Pinkie&quot; by Thomas Lawrence, which is also at the Huntington opposite &quot;The Blue Boy.&quot;<br/><br/>I read both not too far...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53993588">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel explores the life and mind of a physicist. Themes range from isolation to love and the building of a relationship to its end. <br/><br/>A juxtaposition of the search for truth and beauty in nature with the tragic effects of the seeker's obsession on his relationship with those closest t...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A surprisingly complex portrait of a single character, rendered in Lightman's deceptively minimal, elegant language.  Rather than developing in a linear way, its chapters are more like vignettes: pointed, evocative, and all the more powerful for their sparse, simple language.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i remember greatly enjoying this book. but honestly, i don't remember anything about it other than the perspective/voice from which it was written.<br/>i'd still recommend it. i was never able to finish 'einstein's dreams' however.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Good Benito]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up Good Benito because I'd loved Einstein's Dreams so much.  GB isn't nearly as good, but its still a sweet book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not Lightman's best.  I read this since I had enjoyed Einstein's Dreams so much, but this falls flat.]]></body>
    
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