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  <title><![CDATA[This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics)]]></title>
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  <default-description>Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes. Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of world literature.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1980</original-publication-year>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is difficult, with a moat of sixty years and an intellectual barricade of countless other World War II and Holocaust-related reading, to adequately begin to review this collection of short stories from Tadeusz Borowski. Falling back into the same reiteration of virtually all Holocaust/post-war wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12149104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Eric]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who denies or ignores Mankind's evil nature]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 09 12:43:18 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 09 12:57:11 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book to test your fortitude.  If you can read more than one story at once, your capacity for the banality of human injustice and horror is great indeed.  The only hope to be found in reading this collection of short stories is in the knowledge that the author survived to tell them.<br/><br/>The ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4324792">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <votes>4</votes>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 22 11:12:09 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 26 17:40:43 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Passage from this book:<br/><br/>&quot;The four of us became involved in a heated discussion...by maintaining that in this war morality, national solidarity, patriotism and the ideals of freedom, justice and human dignity had all slid off man like a rotten rag. We said that there is no crime that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47158356">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 14 11:42:10 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 03 09:30:29 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection of short stories by Tadeusz Borowski, a concentration camp survivor who later committed suicide, is one of the most beautifully written accounts of survival in Auschwitz while Poland was under Nazi occupation. Highly recommended.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="39130766">
    <user id="205134">
    <name><![CDATA[Adam]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Dec 02 13:11:27 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 02 13:33:53 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Almost as soon as the Nazi camps were liberated after the Second World War, Borowski set about recreating that world in a series of shorter pieces.  He only wrote for a few years--before his suicide--but he was one of the first to do so to warm literary reception.  <br/><br/>Varying in format from...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39130766">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61992895">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 02 23:35:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 03 12:15:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Holocaust literature-- very good Holocaust literature. It is Holocaust literature devoid of pontification, sentimentalism, and examination.  There are no rhetorical questions about ethics, human nature, and the problem of evil.  Instead, there are just frank descriptions about the banality o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61992895">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2876248">
    <user id="147619">
    <name><![CDATA[Michael]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Missoula, MT]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 09 16:00:53 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 09 16:10:13 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[the narrator's utterly unsentimental description of tearing a baby from its mother's arms. <br/><br/>i read this late at night, a while ago, when we lived in an apartment next to a couple that fought constantly. She was a tall red-headed tri-athlete, who routinely beat the shit out of the guy, who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2876248">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76597087">
    <user id="165897">
    <name><![CDATA[Ankur]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 03 11:14:46 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 06 13:35:43 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[F Scott Fitzgerald said that ‘the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.' In this novel, prisoners must live knowing that others are dying, they must temper guilt with arrogance, they create self...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76597087">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11584366">
    <user id="740130">
    <name><![CDATA[Erin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 03 17:57:43 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 03 18:17:15 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully crafted stories that depict the normalcy of life under horrifying conditions.  They show evil not as strong or overwhelming, but logical - people make series of very rational compromises with devestating results.  Sort of interesting to think about from an economic/game theory perspectiv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11584366">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3909464">
    <user id="230150">
    <name><![CDATA[Anna]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 01 10:05:10 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 01 10:06:37 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is absolutely heart-breaking. It is a collection of short stories about first-, second-, and third-person accounts of the Holocaust and its horrors. I read it for a college class, and I was unable to read more than one story per night because the writing was so intense. However, I think it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3909464">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1209797">
    <user id="80606">
    <name><![CDATA[patrick]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 14 15:15:08 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 14 15:16:45 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an account of a Holocaust camp from the point of view of a polish communist.<br/><br/>It's essentially the same thing as &quot;Night&quot;, except the first person dialogue isn't from a Jew's point of view.<br/><br/>I recommend this to anyone who thinks the Holocaust media forms they've ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1209797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17120905">
    <user id="968446">
    <name><![CDATA[Jen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Twin Falls, ID]]></location>        
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  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 05 17:27:00 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 05 17:28:07 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is required reading for High school students in Poland.  I bought it at Auschwitz.  very disturbing and very good.]]></body>
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    <review id="3281654">
    <user id="199973">
    <name><![CDATA[Joseph]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[West Lafayette, IN]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[depress your Intro to Lit Class]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 19 13:15:34 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 19 13:19:36 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seriously.  This book is tremendously witty in the darkest sense possible.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="45493516">
    <user id="245573">
    <name><![CDATA[Rob]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 05 14:39:06 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is definitely worth reading. It's a good piece of Holocaust literature that delves into the psychology of evil and gives a glimpse of the beginnings of postmodernism in Europe. I disagree with the movement, but I understand that some have suffered much more than I have, and that has led th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45493516">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39813795">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stephanie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Mission Viejo, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Nov 10 09:08:47 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The rating system for this kind of book is completely inadequate. This is not the kind of book you think of in terms of &quot;I liked it&quot; or &quot;I loved it&quot; - it's more like &quot;It took me two weeks to read all 180 pages of this book because I had to put it down and cry like a baby bet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39813795">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45939175">
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    <name><![CDATA[Tamora]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people with strong stomaches who want to know what death camps were like]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Feb 10 10:21:43 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A gruelling volume of short stories written by a Polish survivor of Auschwitz who committed suicide 6 years later.  On reading these stories, all but the last of which are set in the camp, the only thing I could say was, &quot;Why did he wait so long?&quot;  A rising Polish poet, he arrived at the c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45939175">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Dec 18 13:51:30 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 18 13:53:43 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to stop reading this book a couple times to throw up. That never happens to me, but this book was so difficult and painful to read. When you're done reading it, you feel absolutely disgusted with humanity. You don't want to leave your house, you don't want to talk to anyone, and you want to hu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40400816">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jul 20 21:21:30 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. I'd never even heard of this guy before my class. This book is a collection of short stories, arranged in (it seems) rough chronologcial order for his time in Auschwitz.  His style is engaging. He masterfully weaves details and items together and at the end of the story hits the reader with bri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27326706">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 04 15:26:53 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 04 15:30:24 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stories from a survivor at Auschwitz. The sentences drip with acidic emotion, the words pound away at the absurdities of human existence. These stories aren't read, they're felt at the deepest levels.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 08 21:40:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 08 21:41:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most horrific view of Auchwitz and the Hollocaust that I've ever read. Good if you want to know extreme details of the Hell that existed there, but not exactly your &quot;uplifting, feel good&quot; novel. ]]></body>
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