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    <body><![CDATA[The first story in this book, &quot;A Simple Heart,&quot; pretty completely flatlined for me. The dead parrot was more interesting than the main character. After finishing this one, I was rather dreading having to read two more in-depth looks at overly dramatized tragedies in the lives of mediocre c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35506582">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Flaubert's narrative is absolutely incredible. His attention to the details of a life, his attention to the details of a story give so much weight to the character in these stories. You know and understand Felicite so well in a &quot;Simple Heart&quot; and you know so well what she has gone through ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20887032">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Of course, the language was way beyond me and I had trouble getting a feeling of the flow since I was reading it so slowly. keeping that in mind...<br/><br/>I admire <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Flaubert" title=" Flaubert"> Flaubert</a> for &quot;la recherche de la mot juste&quot; - he would write and rewrite each line until it was perfect before going on t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1355096">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[3 pieces of perfection, exemplifying &quot;subjective objectivity&quot; and the quest for &quot;Le Mot Juste&quot; to the point where reading these deceptively simple tales becomes as much an exercise in detective work, as literature.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading &quot;A Simple Heart&quot;, Felicite stayed on my mind for a long time. I used to know and love someone like her when I was a child. The writing is so simple, yet so touching.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love Flaubert. In particular, the Legend of St. Julian. I definitely recommend it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[(Based only on the opening story, A Simple Heart; haven't read the other two yet)<br/><br/>Normally I think of &quot;tear-jerker&quot; as a derogatory term when applied to fiction, in the case of A Simple Heart, it's a compliment.  What a sad, touching story, yet Flaubert is far too skillful to ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29022836">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[3 very different and wonderful tales by a great writer...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was, frankly, awful. I only got through the first tale, but it was clear that the rest would not improve. This is supposed to be Flaubert's &quot;light-hearted&quot; work. Yeah. Right. It's as cross and old and dreary as &quot;The Tell-Tale Heart.&quot; It's basically a fast-forwarded life...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14784629">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm fudging--or at least, rounding up--by putting this on my &quot;read&quot; shelf, since I've read only the first of the three tales. But it's the famous one, &quot;A Simple Heart,&quot; the one for which Flaubert kept a stuffed parrot on his desk as inspiration. This seems to have worked: the end...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4168016">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent. Recommended. Like Balzac, however, the stories tend to have less of an impact than the novels.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;A Simple Heart&quot; and &quot;The Legend of St. Julius the Hospitator&quot; are just amazing stories. Also, try saying the word &quot;hospitator.&quot; Isn't it fun?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was the last story that took me so long to get through this little gem. Even though I read the introduction, I had no idea what was going on in Herodias until the very end - I was like, what? He's St. John the Baptist! All the names threw me for a loop. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned that simplicity is so much difficult as it is complexity.<br/>One simple heart is so much important as it is the most complex, and nothing is more complex than a simple heart, in the sense that simplicity is the highest point of complexity. ]]></body>
    
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