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    <body><![CDATA[This review is serving as a spiritual tug of war. The Battle of the Conscious. I really don’t know what to think.  I hesitate between 2 and 3 stars and Yeah, I know… I’m a heartless bitch. The guilt tells me to rate it higher because of all the persecution and just plain ol’ <strong>H</strong>orrors that thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52365623">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book as a young person (aged 13 or 14?), having appropriated it from my father's bookshelves. I remember being truly terrified by Kosinski's story, and it was I think the first time I had to close a book because I simply could not face reading any more.  Eventually I did finish it, I thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44134963">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most difficult books I've ever read.  There's been a lot of furor over the autobiographical &quot;truth&quot; of this novel, and even over the identity of its author, but I think the controversy misses the point.  I don't much care who wrote this book, or about whom; I care that it's an <em>a...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1990108">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read an earlier edition than this. I’ve read many, many holocaust era books and I’d already read quite a few when I read this one. And this says a lot, but this one might be the most horrifying one of them all. This was one of the most disturbing books I’ve ever read and yet I loved the book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2790979">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Painted Bird was a controversial book for years after its publication, and it's difficult to separate the book from the controversy.  Artistically speaking, I was not terribly impressed by this novel - it seemed to me little more than a parade of macabre episodes.  I'm a fan of such horrors when...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31622035">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an incredibly brutal book.  I hate to admit it but I didn't finish reading it.  It is so graphic in content that I almost threw up.  I couldn't believe that people were capable of doing such horrible things to each other.  I think that Kosinski is an amazing writer and his description of war...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43166890">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8653475">
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    <body><![CDATA[Not sure what to think about this book.  Setting aside the whole question of whether Kosinski really wrote it, and assuming that it is in fact fictional, rather than autobiographical, as he originally claimed, I suppose it should be read as a dark little parable.  Sort of an anti-fairytale:  the nai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8653475">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In high school, I was very fortunate to have one of those teachers who turned everything you thought you knew right onto its head and then back around again. <br/>What struck me about this unusual choice of curriculum was its confounding shape-shifting- is it literature, under a subtle guise of aut...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1360218">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book helped me recognize the sadistic side of human nature when i encounter it in daily life. it made me believe that there need be no complicated motivation for cruelty- maybe boredom or a feeling of inferiority. cruelty is simple and common and dependable, and it makes a good tool. it made me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13296751">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know how many times I have read this book, but it never ceases to amaze me. The story takes place in Eastern Europe during WWII. Families are sending their children off to hide in the backwoods (and often backwards) villages to avoid the horrors of genocide. What one child finds is equally a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5202639">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hands down the most depressing book I've ever read. It's also one of my favorite books.<br/><br/>Having read a few of Kosinski's other works, at times I've questioned whether he simply aims for shock value.  But while The Painted Bird is indeed shocking, it's a beautifully told story that forced m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1088548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is very difficult book, no matter where you come from. Just because the subject is difficult it is not a good reason to reject the book. Life is difficult and people can be cruel to each other. Just look around.<br/>The author often commented that he wrote &quot;auto-fiction&quot; -- he mixed ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56583023">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kosinski delivers us the picaresque tale of a small Gypsie (or Jewish, it's unclear) boy roving the rugged countryside of eastern Europe during World War II.  What begins as a story of magic and wilderness spirals to reveal the ugly nature of humankind.  The boy does possesses the crowning quality o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47742346">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jerzy Kosinski would likely have gone entirely unknown to me had it not been for the recommendation of Irish George at Backstreet Books in Chiang Mai Thailand.  I've read plenty about the holocoust in my youth, never really enjoyed stories about war, and believe enough in stereotypes that I wouldn't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71853402">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It really humbled me. <br/>After reading so many books about WWII sometimes I find that the things people went through which SHOULD have a very large emotional impact on me sometimes don't, but they did throughout this book. I think that a lot of it followed a boy who didn't live in the city during...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74454340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many of the books I read these days are determined partly by chance, as I frequently dip into the Bookcrossing basket in my office building. <em>The Painted Bird</em> was one borrowed from that resource.<br/><br/>Although I happened to be reading it at Christmas time, this is no holiday fare. The creepy to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40776785">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ A deeply disturbing novel about a young boy's experiences during the Holocaust.  My main problem was the matter-of-fact manner in which the lead character describes the tragedies he witnesses, participates in, and endures. The descriptions are horrifying and graphic, and, because it is semi-autobio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48880173">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story of an orphan who wanders Eastern Europe during the final days of World War II is supposed to be a condemnation of the insanity humans are capable of inflicting on one another.  However, the events of the book are presented in such a surreal and distanced manner that it's hard to be affect...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37384552">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Considered to be Kosinski's finest work, The Painted Bird is moving, unflinching, and unforgettable. The story follows the journey of an abandoned boy across Eastern Europe during World War II and his struggle to survive. Although the author claimed that this novel was not autobiographical, much of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38553041">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting!  I wouldn't recommend this to everyone -- this book had more rape than all the other books I've read in my life combined, for one thing -- but I was pretty into this surreal story of human cruelty.  It wasn't quite a 5-star book.  The symbolism was overdone and the plot was meandering, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51730705">more...</a>]]></body>
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