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  <title><![CDATA[Flesh And Blood]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michael Cunningham]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri May 02 05:01:19 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book, but I kept feeling like I had read it before.  Surely, I'm not that addled post-pregnancy, but there were certain scenes that just felt completely familiar whereas I had no recollection of other scenes or characters.  I had read &amp; loved The Hours many years ago, and there are simi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21336569">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though Cunningham writes beautifully, he hasn't quite figured out how to balance his heavy subject matter with his wildly descriptive prose. The book becomes bogged down by the extreme familial drama that Cunningham creates for his characters. This book is a good read, but you'd be better suited to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41415501">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73772019">
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 07 13:43:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 07 13:44:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So you think you have a dysfunctional family! Try this book on for size. It is a fascinating tale of a family which plays out over several generations. This gives the readers a real sense for how and where family dynamics come from.<br/><br/>It is a book that will appeal to many different groups o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73772019">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48199050">
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  <date_updated>Sat Mar 07 09:53:58 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my absolute favorite kind of book.  It tells the story of a family over three generations, basically.  I love the way the author is able to show the dysfunctional nature of the family, by going into each characters' head and describing their often conflicting thoughts.  It's very realistic i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48199050">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43766713">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Flesh and Blood<br/>Michael Cunningham<br/>1995<br/><br/><br/>For the mature reader, by which I mean adult and not a child, ‘Flesh and Blood’ is a literary romp.  The themes that Michael Cunningham explores are heavy, complex themes: incest, infidelity, drugs—the enormous struggles of sex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43766713">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16405443">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Mar 04 07:07:19 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hate to think that Michael Cunningham is writing the same book over and over, because really, he isn't, but this one seemed like it had his &quot;stock&quot; characters. Strong, but quirky women, a gay man with some guilt over his sexuality, etc.  Depressing at the end. Still a fairly decent book,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16405443">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29909459">
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    <body><![CDATA[On a few occasions when I went to hear Michael Cunningham speak, all the questions from the audience were about The Hours and A Home at the End of the World. Why does Flesh and Blood get so little airtime? This is a beautifully written and totally engrossing family saga that I didn't wanted to end. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29909459">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8545563">
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    <body><![CDATA[Personality of characters were similar to those in the Hours (which I enjoyed reading), but in this book, they began to get on my nerves.  Book dragged on for tooo long, but I stuck with it until the end, and overall was glad I finished it.]]></body>
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    <review id="26788527">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Cunningham's worst book, I think (he wrote it before THE HOURS made him a literary superstar), and yet it still resonates with me, and it may possibly be his most beautifully written. There are entire paragraphs I can excerpt that are worthy of being published as a poem. For instance, this:...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26788527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46865537">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Michael Cunningham books because he tells stories about unhappy people.  Flesh and Blood explores three generations of an American family, from the Greek immigrant patriarch to the gay son and free spirit daughter he doesn't understand to the mixed race grandson he is embarrased by.  <br/>Fl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46865537">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64831109">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An intense family drama filled with passion, as each character tries to define his/her own life, often using love and sex. The characters themselves are well developed, and have to face discrimination, an incestuous relationship, gay initiation, drugs, AIDS, divorce, illness, suicide, unplanned preg...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64831109">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="965414">
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Michael Cunningham is a beautiful writer- his narration style is one of my favorites, and there are few modern writers who delve into description so well. <br/><br/>That being said, my reading of Flesh and Blood was marred by one large problem- it is bizarrely similar to The Hours (which was publi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/965414">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38448379">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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  <read_count>once</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I read this book over the course of three days becasue I needed to get to the end. I couldn't put it down, and yet, it was too fast. There is so much in there that it deserves another read. Oddly enough, the reason I picked it up in the first place, because it has GBLT themes, is not what I remember...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38448379">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72443818">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You know how you think your family is dysfunctional? The family Cunningham writes about is more screwed up than yours and at some point it quits being a good read and something you have to get through- like a bad therapy session. Interesting, complex, flawed characters keep you reading. Would I recc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72443818">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60571117">
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard not to give this book 5 stars - such a great read.  A story of a family across 4 generations and different eras, grappling with their very human problems.  Few laughs, lots of tragedy and sex, a symbolic garden, and ultimately characters who were normal enough to be really believable.  Great tw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60571117">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38191241">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book broke my heart. Cunningham is a modern master of the English language, and he knows exactly how to rise intense emotions without falling into the traps of sentimentality or easy pathos. It's a hard, powerful novel, centered around a dysfunctional family that has a very unique story and yet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38191241">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39107473">
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    <body><![CDATA[a captivating and intimate portrait of a family with very vivid characters.   Each character is filled with their own unique passions and you follow every family member through their joys and their sorrows.  I had a hard time putting it down at times and couldn;t wait to get back to it each night!  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39107473">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60947845">
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    <body><![CDATA[I am really surprise about the plot of this because I thought it was about family and their relationships. I am surprised and moved by the Stassos's story and how the characters developed to be live in a tragic community or family...And Thanks Christina for this book!<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Não seriam necessárias mais de 150 páginas para contar a saga da família Stassos - o livro de Cunningham tem 3 vezes mais que isso. &quot;Laços de Sangue&quot; (título em português) se arrasta numa prolixidade de clichês: o imigrante que constrói um império do zero e torna-se um tirano na ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1289076">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strange to say, but what I really enjoyed about the book was its structure - the journey from 1935 to 2035 in multiple perspectives. Cunningham writes us an unhappy family being unhappy in its own way but managed to leave me with a lot of compassion for his characters. Clearly, Cunningham loves, lov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26455955">more...</a>]]></body>
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