<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<GoodreadsResponse>
	<Request>
		<authentication>false</authentication>
		    <method><![CDATA[]]></method>
	</Request>
	
<book id="16810">
  <title><![CDATA[The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)]]></title>
  <isbn><![CDATA[0811200701]]></isbn>
  <isbn13><![CDATA[9780811200707]]></isbn13>
    <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
    <work>
  <best_book_id type="integer">16810</best_book_id>
  <books_count type="integer">3</books_count>
  <default_description>Christopher Isherwood was a diverse writer whose accomplishments included &lt;i&gt;The Mortmere Stories (Edward Upward Series)&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;A Single Man&lt;/i&gt; and a translation of &lt;i&gt;The Song of God (Bhagavad Gita)&lt;/i&gt;. But many critics hailed &lt;i&gt;The Berlin Stories&lt;/i&gt;, the reissue of two of his best novels, as his finest. In the book, a man named Christopher Isherwood, who is and is not the author, writes a story of exile, combining the best of Isherwood's real life with the best of the life he imagined.</default_description>
  <id type="integer">18460</id>
  <media_type nil="true"></media_type>
  <original_language_id type="integer" nil="true"></original_language_id>
  <original_publication_day type="integer" nil="true"></original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">6</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1963</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</original_title>
  <rating_dist>total:711|5:215|4:302|3:175|2:15|1:4|</rating_dist>
  <ratings_count type="integer">711</ratings_count>
  <ratings_sum type="integer">2842</ratings_sum>
  <reviews_count type="integer">1194</reviews_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
</work>

  <average_rating><![CDATA[4.00]]></average_rating>
  <ratings_count><![CDATA[698]]></ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count><![CDATA[80]]></text_reviews_count>
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin]]></url>
  <authors>
        <author id="10229">
      <name><![CDATA[Christopher Isherwood]]></name>
      <role><![CDATA[]]></role>
      <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10229.Christopher_Isherwood]]></url>
      <average_rating><![CDATA[3.94]]></average_rating>
      <ratings_count><![CDATA[1892]]></ratings_count>
      <text_reviews_count><![CDATA[209]]></text_reviews_count>
    </author>
      </authors>
    <reviews start="1" end="20" total="1194">
    <review id="16119018">
    <user id="932268">
    <name><![CDATA[Tutti]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Australia]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/932268-tutti]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203724937p3/932268.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Feb 22 15:03:24 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 11 05:01:42 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[The collecting of short stories/ charachter reflections by an aspiring writer, ex-pat, English teacher is a familiar account of adaptation and cross-cultural investigation although is set in one of the most fecund periods in modern history.<br/>A chronicle of Berlin in 1932- 34 and the precursory a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16119018">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16119018]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="27416541">
    <user id="689695">
    <name><![CDATA[Lenoir]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Saint Petersburg, FL]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/689695-lenoir]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201694235p3/689695.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="1001-read" />
        <shelf name="2009" />
        <shelf name="memoirs" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 16 09:22:37 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 14 17:49:52 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I have to clarify with my 3 star rating that this is an average because it is really two different books in one. The first one is The Last of Mr. Norris. If I were reviewing that one alone I would have given it only 2 stars. It is about a man (the author I presume but he used a pseudonym) who rents ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27416541">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27416541]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="3584590">
    <user id="139695">
    <name><![CDATA[Kevin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Philadelphia, PA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/139695-kevin-hatch]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1182272738p3/139695.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 26 11:54:59 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 26 12:03:54 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Isherwood's own thoughtful, gentle, fallible nature, which the reader understands and idnetifies with immediately, stands in haunting contrast to the ominous changes taking place in Berlin during his stay there (1930-1934). For me, at least, the novel brings home--in a deeply personal way--how uncer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3584590">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3584590]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="73578773">
    <user id="733722">
    <name><![CDATA[Austin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/733722-austin-ratner]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1253742158p3/733722.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>0</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 05 19:33:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 05 20:13:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Two novels based on Christopher Isherwood's experiences as an English expatriate in Berlin in the early 1930s, and the basis for the wellknown movie Cabaret.  The second 'novel' (if it really is a novel), Goodbye to Berlin, is in my view far superior to the first, The Last of Mr. Norris (I would ski...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73578773">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73578773]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="5868415">
    <user id="216284">
    <name><![CDATA[Mark]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Pittsburgh, PA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/216284-mark]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1254348059p3/216284.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="historical-fiction" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 07 17:00:32 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 07 17:02:11 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[These stories of prewar Berlin were so finely wrought that I couldn't put them down. Largely through the device of his autobiographical protagonist, Isherwood tells about the people who inhabit his rooming house and through them sketches all the stresses and tensions of the end of the Weimar Republi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5868415">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5868415]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="65303485">
    <user id="153">
    <name><![CDATA[Ann]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cambridge, MA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/153-ann]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1216931198p3/153.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 28 13:49:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 28 13:49:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[The Berlin Stories are really two books in one, and should be treated as such -- The Last of Mr. Norris is a fully-formed novella, and probably deserving of four stars, I thought; Goodbye to Berlin reads more like a disjointedly charming, charmingly disjointed set of diary entries.  It's impossible ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65303485">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65303485]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="38448425">
    <user id="1383983">
    <name><![CDATA[Valerie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1383983-valerie-k]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-111x148.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 23 08:45:24 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 23 08:52:58 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I loved these stories.  They gave a really different view of Germany during the rise of the Nazis, it had never occurred to me that the problem of why people didn't stop them wasn't just blind devotion to Hitler's vision of a restored Germany, partly it was disbelief that the Nazi party would ever a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38448425">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38448425]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="65074351">
    <user id="537203">
    <name><![CDATA[Meave]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/537203-meave]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1192206248p3/537203.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 26 19:38:43 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 20 22:59:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[It gets better with every page. Of course, I'm terribly biased, having fallen in love with Berlin myself a few years ago and being crazy about German and all--this is sort of a dream-book for me, like if I'd read it 15 years ago I would've mooned over it for weeks, wishing I could've lived during th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65074351">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65074351]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="18471392">
    <user id="349619">
    <name><![CDATA[Keith]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Quincy, MA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/349619-keith]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1258579796p3/349619.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="gay-must-reads" />
        <shelf name="historical" />
        <shelf name="intriguing" />
        <shelf name="quality-fiction" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 23 19:10:06 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 05 07:31:34 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to read the book about what the real story was behind the movie Cabaret.  Also, in the process learned more about the intriguing man that was Christopher Isherwood.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18471392]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="46889894">
    <user id="720260">
    <name><![CDATA[Christina]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/720260-christina]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1220888562p3/720260.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 19 14:27:43 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 12 11:47:27 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Isherwood lived in Berlin from 1929 to 1933, as is very clear from how the city and the characters are described in the two stories, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin. The mood is so convincing, and the insight to the characters so genuine, you can imagine how much of it comes from first ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46889894">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46889894]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="34421840">
    <user id="16675">
    <name><![CDATA[martin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[10300, Thailand]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/16675-martin]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1185961568p3/16675.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 03 01:47:06 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 03 01:47:06 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[It's very easy to like these novels, unless of course you're a fundamentalist of some religious extreme or other. The stories are simple and fun, the characters are real enough and sympathetic enough for the reader to identify with and the writing is always smooth, humorous and readable. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34421840">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34421840]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="32158193">
    <user id="821103">
    <name><![CDATA[Lisa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/821103-lisa]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203428480p3/821103.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 06 02:26:45 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 06 03:10:46 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Berlin seems to be the place for cool artistic people to go to and they love to talk and make art about it. It’s everywhere. Several people have talked about it with me during the last couple of weeks since I started reading the Berlin Stories. They describe the city with that glamorous grittiness...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32158193">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32158193]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="5021229">
    <user id="214508">
    <name><![CDATA[Amy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Oakland, CA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/214508-amy]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1255664259p3/214508.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 23 14:02:11 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 01 14:20:34 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I liked these stories, but I just kept feeling like there was nothing much to them. They all take place in Germany in the 1930s...before everything goes to shit, but people know who Hitler is. Berlin was also supposed to be a mecca of risque behavior and sexual experimentation/freedom during this er...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5021229">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5021229]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="65706854">
    <user id="689723">
    <name><![CDATA[Alexis]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Canada]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/689723-alexis]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1198117279p3/689723.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="2009" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 31 16:57:12 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 04 19:01:00 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Read because it was referenced in work by another author. This book was a series of reflections about various characters the author had met in Berlin. The setting and characters were somewhat interesting, but there was no real plot.<br/><br/>One star is simply for the character of Sally Bowles, wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65706854">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65706854]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="39489365">
    <user id="741107">
    <name><![CDATA[Namrata]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[India]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/741107-namrata]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-111x148.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>0</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 06 20:52:56 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 06 20:57:07 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[A must read,am sure must be out of stock stock!If I could write half as well as Christopher Isherwood's style in these stories, I would be very happy. I loved the vignettes of life in Berlin that open almost every chapter before he returns to the main narrative.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39489365]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="80055436">
    <user id="3014229">
    <name><![CDATA[Dvora]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Costa Daurada, 56, Spain]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3014229-dvora]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1260357255p3/3014229.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 06 05:29:43 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 11 11:41:42 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I think Isherwood writes beautifully.  This is my second time reading this book.  I don't often reread, but I had read his Christopher and His Kind recently so I decided to take another look.  And with all the documentaries on Berlin because of the anniversary of the fall of the wall, I was reminded...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80055436">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80055436]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="16060214">
    <user id="77417">
    <name><![CDATA[bill]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/77417-bill]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203630352p3/77417.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Feb 22 00:01:04 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 05 21:28:55 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[a bittersweet portrayal of berlin and its denizens in the waning days of the weimar republic, seen through the eyes of a very observant &amp; 'eventually' very queer englishman. (very english.) i was going to give this book a mere (!) four stars. then at the end of one of the stories (The Nowaks) he did...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16060214">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16060214]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="42304802">
    <user id="1136075">
    <name><![CDATA[Hanna]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1136075-hanna]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209790085p3/1136075.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 07 20:37:17 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 07 20:38:57 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Amazing language. Intuitive. Desperately honest and heartbreaking. Isherwood's stories are tied to the period just before the rise of Hitler's regime. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42304802]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="73541834">
    <user id="2808738">
    <name><![CDATA[Carol]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chatham, NJ]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2808738-carol]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1254797381p3/2808738.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 05 14:10:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 05 14:11:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Excellent writing. Didn't know about Isherwood until last year when the Berlin Stories was recommended to me.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73541834]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="54596024">
    <user id="2275664">
    <name><![CDATA[Melly]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Paris, A8, France]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2275664-melly]]></url>
    <image><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-111x148.jpg]]></image>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">16810</id>
  <isbn>0811200701</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780811200707</isbn13>
  <ratings_count type="integer">698</ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">80</text_reviews_count>
  <title>The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)</title>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166760163m/16810.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16810.The_Berlin_Stories_The_Last_of_Mr_Norris_and_Goodbye_to_Berlin</link>
</book>

    <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="teh-classix" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 01 10:04:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 02 01:52:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This book eventually became <em>Cabaret</em> the musical, also by Christopher Isherwood. And I'm not sure if anybody's going to go with me on this one, but I really believe <em>The Berlin Stories</em> is an even greater, more poignant achievement. Isherwood has one of the greatest narrative voices of all time. Most o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54596024">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54596024]]></url>
</review>
    </reviews>
  <popular_shelves>
        <shelf name="to-read" />
        <shelf name="fiction" />
        <shelf name="currently-reading" />
        <shelf name="short-stories" />
        <shelf name="1001" />
        <shelf name="classics" />
        <shelf name="1001-books" />
        <shelf name="germany" />
        <shelf name="literature" />
      </popular_shelves>
  <book_links>
    <book_link id="8">
  <name><![CDATA[WorldCat]]></name>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=16810</link>
</book_link>
  </book_links>
</book>
</GoodreadsResponse>