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  <title><![CDATA[In the Country of Last Things (Lernmaterialien)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Paul Auster]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am ridiculously impressed with this book thus far - post-apocalyptic fiction is absolutely my favorite genre, and this is such a different take on it that I haven't been able to stop reading. Typically, nearly the entire population is already dead or dying, whereas Auster has entire cities still s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37834936">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Distopie.<br/>-nu in sensul obisnuit pe care-l ia in literatura: haosul ataca doar un oras, orasul e scena pe care oribilitatile necesare unei distopii au loc.<br/>-persoana I, singular, o scrisoare spre exterior: Anna Blume<br/>-concentrarea autorului pe oras, lumea dinafara e ignorata, orasul e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40771714">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 23 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anna Blume leaves her life of privilege to travel to a post-apocalyptic, dystopic city in a foreign country in search of her brother, a reporter who has gone missing. Immediately upon arriving in the unnamed city, Anna gets caught up in the struggle to eke out day-to-day survival in a city in a stat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57709740">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41585708">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Entamé hier soir, je l'ai terminé tout à l'heure, ébahie, émue, intriguée. Anna blume adresse à son ami d'enfance une très longue lettre qu'elle n'est même pas sûre de pouvoir lui envoyer. Fille de bonne famille, Anna Blume a connu une enfance et une adolescence dorées jusqu'à ce que son...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41585708">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2461454">
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    <body><![CDATA[Quite possibly the most grim book I have ever read, with the possible exception of Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'. A book like this, written by anyone but Auster, would be an ordeal to read; however, Auster is such a craftsman that even the most hopeless of circumstances remain gripping.]]></body>
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    <review id="18845478">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every time I read another book by Paul Auster, I'm always disappointed when it's not as good as &quot;City of Glass&quot;, but now I'm wondering if maybe I was wrong about that too, and that if I re-read that story now, I won't like that very much anymore, either.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this at a time when I lived kind of an apocalyptic lifestyle similar to her's.  This book is about a woman looking for her brother who is MIA in a NYC-type city in a Country where nothing new has been produced for a long time.  Many of the buildings are in rubble and the few left are disappea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50065407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49048128">
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    <body><![CDATA[The prose style here is awful.Its like reading something not edited by someone who is writing in a second Language. Albeit I Liked the book I had to read it to the end I loved a couple of the Characters and I love the unexplained dystopian city. Its an easy read, I read it on a bus in france and pic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49048128">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44066774">
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  <read_at>Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt as though this book had a lot of potential, but ultimately suffered from weak characterization and a very slow start.<br/><br/>I’m a big fan of post-apocalyptic fiction and dystopias, and basically any book that uses either as a hook will succeed in drawing me in. Thus far the ones I’ve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44066774">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30289631">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Saudi Arabian princes and the top 5% wealthiest in the US ]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting (and much earlier) contrast to Cormac's &quot;The Road&quot;, the path taken here while not as harrowing is alarming. The tone here offers feminine compassion to offset McCarthy's macho run through the gauntlet of the grotesque. I &quot;enjoyed&quot; (wrong word, but you know what I m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30289631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22804287">
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Paul Auster is probably best known for his New York Trilogy, a series of three surreal and philosophical novels that borrow from the detective noir tradition. I enjoyed the trilogy, so I recently picked up another of his works, <em>In the Country of Last Things</em>. The story follows Anna Blume on her quest...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22804287">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2480635">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This review is also available at [http://www.hurricanelaura.blogspot.com].  <br/><br/>I reached the last few pages of this book on the subway this morning and, very reluctantly, put it back in my bag and headed to work. But I couldn't stand it so I surreptitiously read the last few pages at my des...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2480635">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50246445">
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh man, Paul Auster strikes gold again.  His familiar themes of human failure, loss of language and civilization, and unraveling are all present here on a massive scale.  You could say it's his sci-fi book, and it's certainly one of the best realized post-apocalyptic environments I've ever encounter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50246445">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12703534">
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    <body><![CDATA[Dystopian fiction has always been a difficult genre to pull off well. Authors tend to either saturate the reader in the physicality of their dysfunctional society to the point of losing any frame of reference for the reader (e.g. The Road), or they leave so many holes in their backstory that you hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12703534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a kind of futuristic book depicting a broken down city whose government both imprisons the people within and is also not present. You can go into the city, but once you are in you can not come back out for governmental fear that you may report what you have seen. It kind of gives you the fee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8918892">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A short, sparse, depressing read...yet thouroughly engrossing and thought-provoking.  In line with my (admittedly) limited exposure to Auster's other works, he paints a bleak and lonely picture of people in a world they don't (and can't) understand...looking for answers within and without,  struggli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42521809">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  It wasn't long but it was interesting and I finished it quickly.  I have really enjoyed reading this author.  This is only my second stab at it (I read the New York Trilogy) earlier this year) but so far I am impressed. <br/><br/>This book was an apocalyptic story abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17319413">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jun 26 12:35:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't get very far into this book. I love Auster's writing, but I had trouble dwelling in this dystopia. Maybe I'm just not into dystopian books; I know this one reminded me of Doris Lessing's <em>Memoirs of a Survivor,</em> which brought up mixed emotions. Maybe i just wasn't in the mood for it. Anyhow, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25577995">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Mar 30 06:18:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall I thought this was a great book. There were parts, as with every book that I wish the author had changed but they were few and far between. For the most part I wanted to continue reading to find out the next part of the story. ]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[AJ Paris]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 15 22:21:26 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 15 22:22:26 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is quite provactive and ultimately disturbing. It is right up there with 1984 and Brave New World as a dystopia to be studied and discussed. ]]></body>
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