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  <read_at>Tue May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[eine lange lektüregeschichte - die aber dem lektüralen erleben angemessen erscheint. oz erzählt - und das in sehr beeindruckender art&amp;weise (der mann kann erzählen!) - eine geschichte über den beginn des jüdischen staates. eine sehr authentisch wirkende geschichte, nämlich die seiner familie ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15968128">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very moving memoir. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amos Oz was a young child when the state of Israel was being created.  His was a family if immigrants, escaping from the Russian and Polish pogroms.  A band of intellectuals who could not find meaningful work in the Jerusalem of the time: the city was overflowing with scholars.  His father's dream i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50703866">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was actually a bit difficult for me to get into, but once I was into it, I could not put it down.  Because Oz makes it fairly clear where he's going in his work, I ended up feeling trapped, like I was on some beautiful but terrible ride headed towards an abyss.  I did read this in translat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22507638">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>An international novelist of stature, Oz makes an assured leap to autobiography and is greeted with reverence and awe. Aware of the universality of his story, he enlists excerpts from the diaries of friends and relatives to provide a broader context. He also forgoes tying his narrative to a strict t...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45460049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book snuck up on me and made me fall in love. I wasn't sure how I felt about it for the first hundred pages or so. I thought the writing was exquisite, but I wasn't sure how interested I was by a story about an only child growing up in his dreamy, book-filled world. But as I kept reading, I fou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54642985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautifully written and moving autobiographical story by Amos Oz. He describes his childhood in Israel, his parents' background and how they left Europe to participate in the building of Israel after the war.  Most touching is his relationship with his mother, an avid music and book-lover, and how...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49132251">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thanks to my honeymoon I finally finished this book. And even then it took nearly the entire trip.<br/><br/>I received this book as a birthday present prior to my depart for my first-ever trip to Israel in March. My friend promised it would be good and the book had great reviews. I admit I had nev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50764636">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amos Oz is pure genius. He is simply seductive. <br/><br/>His impressive intellect captivated me with rich (very rich!) detail and enticed me to hang on to every word. It took me a few chapters to adjust to his brilliant writing (very few writers in our world have his natural capacity of intellect...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41475658">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know how he does it.. The book has chapters and subchapters, but the story doesn't seem to end or pause between them.. You fnish a sentence, or a chapter, but you can't stop, you go right on, to the next ones.. The recomandations on the backcover are right, it is a book like I didn't read in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41074158">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38928129">
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, the book is completed and I am having difficulty choosing between 4 or 5 stars, so I guess I will choose 4. It is best to save 5 stars for those books that you are sure must get 5! Otherwise 5 stars doesn't mean much! There is alot to think about in this book. That is why I like the book. It see...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38928129">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second book I read in me series of Israeli writers. His approach to writing a memoir reminded me of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved" title="Beloved by Toni Morrison">Toni Morrison</a>'s, not in style exactly, but in that both writers bow to memory itself, almost making it a character. <br/><br/>My favorite feature (and probably favorite because it's how I think ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21372484">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've had this book since soon after it was published, but I avoided reading it.  My uncle gave me the book, having read half of it already, and told me it was &quot;wonderful.&quot;  This is the same uncle who once thought that a pumpkin pie was &quot;wonderful,&quot; even though my grandmother had ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20247899">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An autobiography of the famous Israeli author Amos Oz.  Never read anything by him and probably won't.  The book was an interesting persepctive of the years before and after the founding of Israel.  Oz, whose real name is Klausner, was part of an elite group of intellectual refugees.  And here is wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19545081">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 10 08:07:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[a long, monotonous life story for the most part, but the parts where his family lives through the forming of the State of Israel and the hardships they faced at that time are quite interesting.  A story of a family in dysfunction and depression, heartbreaking enough, but the mother's suicide is what...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66833236">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the most detailed and descriptive books I have ever read.  I found myself re-reading sentences because there was so much content in it.  Excellent book.  It is the self portrait of the author who is Jewish and of a turbulent Jerusualem.  It was translated from Hebrew.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The special thing about this book is that it is not just another autobiography. For starters, it's written in the form of a novel (reminiscent of &quot;Live to tell&quot; by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and perhaps even the &quot;Confessions&quot; by Rousso), filled with descriptions of the author's own ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20111957">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Teresa All-Time Favorite<br/><br/>The best about this book is the portrayal of the family members' personalities and their dynamic together.  amos makes you feel the same love he does for all his family.  he as a little boy is hilarious because he's always staging RISK-esque battle scenes in his l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29079672">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I often got frustrated with this book. Oz uses so many words and has so many characters. He also goes back and forth in time, sometimes confusing. But this all adds up to a richly detailed and felt memoir.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Moving story of one man's journey from difficult, lonely boyhood to adult with all the scars of that boyhood, along the same time that Israel was making it's journey into scarred adulthood.]]></body>
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