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    <body><![CDATA[We're in London, it's World War II, and Arthur Rowe, the book's main character, is lured out of his apartment and across the street by a church carnival. He goes in the hope of recapturing a little happiness.<br/><br/>Here's the thing; sad, gentle Arthur Rowe is a murderer. He has just been releas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69808167">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Graham Greene and I liked it. It was one of his <em>entertainments</em>. WWII, London's getting bombed, Rowe wins a cake, people are not who they seem and then they are, and I craved cake but not the fruity kind. It's a book of identity... lost identity, made-up identities, mistaken identit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37334081">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Graham Greene's &quot;entertainments,&quot; a term he used to differentiate thrillers like <em>The Ministry of Fear</em> from his more serious &quot;novels&quot; like <em>The End of the Affair</em> and <em>The Power and the Glory</em>, should not be approached as though they were vacations for Greene, tossed off between more ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27055094">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Ministry of Fear was published in 1943. Between the fantastic background of dropping bombs, some of the odd-sounding terminology of London in the '40's, and the starkness of the novel, I was constantly trying to make sense of the main character, Arthur Rowe's situation in the novel. It is certai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13207155">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Feels like an experiment based on a trying out a few clever ideas about memory loss, guilt, limits of knowledge and the like. The description of Blitz-era London is excellent and Greene conveys the sense of fear, horror, and random destruction wonderfully. Could have been about 100 pages shorter. So...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37983921">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of Greene’s entertainments. But its value as an “entertainment” may escape some people as this is a dark despairing book, nutty to the point of eccentricity. A bizarre existential spy story/noir set in London during the blitz with lunatic asylums, séances, weird events, eccentric characte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71093802">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;One can't love humanity.  One can only love people.&quot;  In &quot;Ministry of Fear&quot; Graham Greene describes the development and deterioration of Arthur Rowe, from a shell of a man, to an unconscionably happy man, to finally a whole man, miserably in love.  The plot of the novel is fille...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12960672">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a big GRAHAM GREENE fan.  The opening of this novel is so unique, it leaves a stain. The scene at the carnival/festival gathering with the cake felt like one of those dreams that stay with you. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Really enjoyed this. It worked as a mystery; it worked as a story of murder and isolation; it worked as a story of wartime; it worked as a story of fear and paranoia; it even worked as a love story. This is the kind of book that makes me happy to have such a bad memory - in a couple years I'll be ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20872211">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So kafkian!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I thoroughly enjoyed this beautifully written, cleverly crafted story. I'm a sucker for man-stumbles-into-dangerous-conspiracy plots, I'll grant you, and that's certainly part of why I liked it. But this one combined adventure story with great insight and lines of text so intriguing you want to unde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73871610">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this years ago, and was pleased to find I'd forgotten the details enough to enjoy it again.  Fitting, since it is an amnesia novel, one of my favorite genres.  Nobody creates atmospheres of doubt and paranoia better than Greene.  Better than the Fritz Lang film starring Ray Milland.  I loved ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25402858">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great start, decent ending, but there's some uncharacteristically clumsy stuff in the middle (I would have thought it beneath Greene to rely on amnesia as a critical plot point, but this book proved me wrong).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I do not feel sufficiently entertained.<br/><br/>Maybe later?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Neither as tightly constructed nor as prescient as some of his other work, this novel (I guess you could call it a spy-detective novel) was still quite decent, though if I was going to want more books in this vein, I'd probably stick to the master of the genre, Georges Simenon.]]></body>
    
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