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  <title><![CDATA[The Reivers]]></title>
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  <default_description>This grand misadventure is the story of three unlikely thieves, or reivers: 11-year-old Lucius Priest and two of his family's retainers. In 1905, these three set out from Mississippi for Memphis in a stolen motorcar. The astonishing and complicated results reveal Faulkner as a master of the picaresque.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1962</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[William Faulkner]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[At my high school, they introduced us to Faulkner with SANCTUARY.  I never returned to him until this summer, when somewhere or other I picked up a copy of this, Faulkner's last novel, published a month before he died in 1962.  The following year, it won a Pulitzer, yet it is one of his least-known ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30382581">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a charming novel, entertaining and humorous though somewhat predictable.  Faulkner's style is always interesting, and this novel does have a well-developed voice.  He uses the story within a story frame, which a grandpa telling a grandson a story, but it's opened by the son.  Kind of like th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62040850">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 07 14:21:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 07 14:34:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I bought this book because it was on my list of pulitzer reads and would often pick up the thin book thinking, &quot;I can knock this sucker out in a couple of days.&quot; only to feel my eyelids growing heavy before the end of the first, nearly page long sentence.  Finally, a couple of weeks with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58775596">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47110230">
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one for me was a classic example of how great Faulkner is more than the sum of its Faulknerian parts.  Every ingredient of great Faulkner - Southern-style storytelling, palpable characters, dialogue that is as gritty and real as coarse sand, the willingness and humor to explore the dark and odd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47110230">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 15 09:41:34 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 16 12:19:08 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This, Faulkner's final and Pulitzer-winning novel, is full of humor and far more accessible than his greater critical successes.  It is a book that looks back at Twain and anticipates &quot;new South&quot; writers like Wendell Berry, but is also infused with Faulkner's particular earthiness.  And th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43128054">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60276468">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>A Pulitzer Prize went to this one!<br/><br/>I honestly do not understand what people see in these stories that include “good-natured, slow-talking Southern darkies.” Have we not evolved? Of course we have; but these novels hang around to remind us of who we once were. All such books need...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60276468">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24948224">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many people refer to this book as a coming of age story about Lucius, an 11 year old boy who takes an trip with two of his father’s employees without his family’s knowledge.  Along the way the young man is exposed to car thievery, whores, horse theft and smuggling, gambling and other family valu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24948224">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49880801">
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    <body><![CDATA[The Reivers is one the the most accessible tales Faulkner offers. A well received film was made of it proving its a great story. On the surface its a road trip novel but deeper issues thread through it. For those who live in Faulkner's fictional and actual locale Memphis still represents &quot;the b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49880801">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51280951">
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 02 12:23:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 02 12:27:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great pleasure to read. A comedy of errors and a road trip as well in 1904 Mississippi for three young men and their acquaintances. A new auto gets &quot;borrowed&quot; for a trip to Memphis, some horse trading and horse racing ensues, and the whole shebang gets wrapped up in a coming of age story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51280951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59811840">
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  <date_updated>Thu Jun 18 17:04:18 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read a lot of Faulkner (mostly because I'm supposed to like it.)  I don't.  Apparently I'm a ex-literature major who doesn't exactly like literature.  Or as I prefer to think of it, a literary rebel.  This is my favorite Faulkner probably because it is less epic and doesn't take itself quite so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59811840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57174822">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was actually pretty good. There’s this kid Lucius Priest and his parents leave, so what’s a eleven year old kid to do? Go on a crazy adventure with Boon, and the Priest’s family negro chauffer Ned. They go to Memphis and see many things that a  kid probably should not see including t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57174822">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10362345">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is Faulkner's final one, published one month before he died. It started off very slow and was the hardest of Faulkner's novels for me to get into, but it was worth pushing through because the story really begins to flow and is pretty funny at parts. The story behind the book is what intere...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10362345">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75373882">
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  <date_added>Thu Oct 22 09:27:30 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you are coming to Faulker from some other planet, start with this one.  It is a warm, accessible story that demands much less of the reader (in terms of accepting Faulker's world) than his &quot;big four,&quot; and it is a much better set-piece than any one of his short stories.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A genuinely funny novel that surprised me with serious insights while I was caught off guard laughing. Also, read it while drinking. That will keep you from getting distracted by the rambling that gives a background to the point of it all. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Faulkner's last book, but this would be a good first Faulkner for a lot of people. It's got a good pace to it and keeps rolling. Like with everything else of his I've read I'm not sure what he meant to tell me, but that's a-ok with me. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The review on the back told me that this was one of the funniest books ever written, and that everyone should read it. I have read Faulkner before, though not for a while, but his writing here in The Reivers just absolutely confounded me. I was rereading sentences several times that were probably 1/...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17237216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46896490">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was told you can't hate Faulkner and Hemingway both... so I'll take Faulkner. Keep in mind, I'm going to give A Fable a whirl soon... but The Reivers did not impress me. The prose was not enough to get me excited, nor were the dubious characters. I know why it was supposed to be a comedy... I gues...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46896490">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As usual with classics from this period, I struggle to get into the cadence of the language. But within about 75 pages, I begin to marvel at how Faulkner's characters can seem both simple and iconic and complex all at the same time.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel was entirely too wordy for me.  it seemed to take forever to get through the plot.  Some humor, some worthwhile observation of human relationships.]]></body>
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