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    <body><![CDATA[So many things I loved about this book-<br/><br/>1. Clever switching between first and third person throughout. He'll say &quot;I think that Christopher should have realized bla bla bla&quot; when speaking about his current opinions and thoughts on himself in the past.<br/><br/>2.  I had previou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28770951">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[read this book while in europe in august. isherwood lets out all of the factual people about whom he based his fictional characters, but uses the book to come clean about all the things he disguised about himself in his berlin stories and other novels. inspiring, specifically in seeing how he and hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/87657">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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