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  <title><![CDATA[Sophie's Choice]]></title>
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  <default_description>Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1979</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Sophie's Choice</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[William Styron]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[William Styron's &quot;Sophie's Choice&quot; has to stand as one of the 20th century's great American novels. Based very loosely on his own experiences in the late 1940s in New York, Styron makes himself into a writer called Stingo who moves into a boarding house in Brooklyn, where he meets a Polish...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1455399">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19227104">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Readers who like being emotionally manipulated by horny narrators]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It seems a lot of people have a problem with the prose being pretentious and overwritten. However, I had a big problem with the unfolding of the plot. This was a strange book for me because I really wanted to like it and even thought I liked it after I was finished. It took me about a week to think ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19227104">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I stuck with it out of curiosity, not so much to find out what her choice was, but because this is supposedly an important American novel and I kept waiting for the &quot;Aha!&quot; moment when it would finally get good.  To me it was just way too long.  I now know what it's like to suffer from too ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58268888">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By the time I learned the &quot;true&quot; story and the big reveal I just didn't care anymore. It is horrible that this is based on millions of true stories but this particular story could have been more succinct.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was not as great as I thought it would be. It is the second Styron book I have read (the other being the Confessions of Nat Turner) and his prose style leaves me cold. I can appreciate the complexity of the structure and the careful unspooling of the story, and I admired some of the writing, pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32905431">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32182207">
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    <body><![CDATA[It is difficult to describe, in these few lines, the emotions felt when reading such  a work.  The scope and the grandeur are beyond limit.  However, at times, the book does seem a little bloated, especially in its pseudo-erotic scenes.<br/><br/>However, when touching upon the Holocaust, it is dif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32182207">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book at Amy's prompting and found it one of the most complex reading experiences of my life.  At times, I hated this book: the elaborate, excessive prose style, the occasional and hideous homophobia (not excusable by it's placement in the consciousness of the character, in my opinion), t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31656451">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27397527">
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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone else feel as ambivalent towards this 'modern classic' as I do?  On the one hand, he makes the terrible subject matter of the Holocaust into a powerful read for a wide audience. And he's written a page-turner with a screenwriter's sense of painting a vivid scene. And it's a clever combination ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27397527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was in the local library last spring break (procrastinating from grading, etc), browsing a shelf of high school reading list books. I wanted to check something out as a reward for the work I was hopefully going to eventually do. I really love Deer Hunter-era Meryl Streep, and even though I've neve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24904254">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two stars is a bit of a disingenuous rating -- it's possibly best left unrated.  At turns brilliant, and at other moments mind-numbing wading through thick, overladen prose -- the novel is as schizophrenic as Nathan. <br/><br/>     Definitely not in the Hemingway or Faulkner tradition as has been ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21594908">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21437741">
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    <body><![CDATA[Nathan is brilliant, quite mad, and deeply in love with Sophie, the tortured Polish survivor of Auschwitz. Stingo, the young narrator and aspiring novelist from the South, travels to Brooklyn where he immediately falls under the couple's spell. The development of the story is the unraveling and sort...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21437741">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20278850">
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, man.  I can't seem to finish a book.  First with the Henry VIII's wives (which I'm slowly finishing... emphasis on SLOWLY) and then the Salman Rushdie one.  It got too wordy.  Anyway, this one's pretty wordy too, but in a really sarcastic way, although I have already circled more than a few word...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20278850">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I read the last pages of this book in a bowling alley, humanity in its finest clinging to the ending of this book as surely as the overpowering cigarette smoke did.<br/><br/>I can't help but think that this may be one of the best ways to finish this particular book, so fraught with the question o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2416245">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2497877">
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  <date_updated>Mon Jul 16 18:47:01 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the most well-written and most beautifully written that I have ever read.  It's worth reading just for the prose and for the flawless vocabulary.  Every word that Styron uses is the PERFECT word - nothing express his meaning better than the word he selects.  I had to look up a word I di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2497877">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="862495">
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    <body><![CDATA[Even if Styron had written nothing else, Sophie’s Choice would assure him a competitive head-start as the true inheritor of Faulkner’s mad, moral explorations.  Not as ambitious or explosive as The Confessions of Nat Turner, in Sophie’s Choice Styron spins outward from his central moral dilemm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/862495">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50876201">
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    <name><![CDATA[Philip]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Forget the movie! Read the book! I think this is one of the best books I have ever read. When I first read it, about two years ago, it totally inhabited my mind and even now, two years later, scenes from the book keep drifting through my head. No wonder William Styron is celebrated-- this book is am...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50876201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66786879">
    <user id="28195">
    <name><![CDATA[Joe]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 09 17:36:22 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 09 17:48:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Putting aside for a moment my dislike at giving this wholly new kind of novel (though decades old) the same rating as a fellow reader of mine who frequents this site, I'll deal with my reservations first.<br/><br/>This great tale, starting with young &quot;Stingo&quot; in Brooklyn, weaves in and o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66786879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fantastic novel that follows Stingo (a young man from the South) to Brooklyn as he claims a new life for himself as a budding author.  He meets Nathan and Sophie at the Pink Palace and builds a relationship with them that traces lies, truths and love from Auschwitz to Washington DC and back to Bro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12245966">more...</a>]]></body>
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