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    <body><![CDATA[Germans were victims too--a different perspective. You learn about the biggest maritime disaster, which is the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. In this book, the main characters which span three generations are directly/indirectly affected by this disaster. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent.  Reminds me a little of Kundera in the way the author feels so comfortable allowing his story to ramble; not at all worried how it will ultimately turn out....]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read other Grass books that were really good - like The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse.  Very fantastical books with good humor.  Crabwalk was almost a book that I didn't finish, because it was so mundane.  But the actual story was kind of interesting, about a father lacking in paternal skills and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54046818">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this. An intreaguing indightment of the fascistoid mindset that lurks behind the oh-so wonderful and politically correct facade of contemporary Germany. To all of those who construe this as an anti-German comment I would like to point out at this point that I myself am German.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Gunter Grass has a very melencoly look on the world.  This is another story influenced by WWII and the Nazi movement.  His characters are &quot;everyday&quot; people, living through the Nazi movement and how this affects their lives today.  Good book, like Grass's &quot;Tin Drum&quot;, but very sad.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Een mooie benadering van de oorlog vanuit de persoonlijke levenservaring van de auteur en vanuit de visie van de veliezer zijn volk. Een wat luchtiger geschreven werk met een minder luchtige inhoud en vraagstelling van deze eminence grise van de Duitse literatuur. Mooi. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've recently found myself preoccupied with pessimistic thoughts concerning our ability to learn from history.  If you share these thoughts, and you would like to have them validated by a Nobel Prize winner, I recommend that you read this book tomorrow.  The story has also made me consider the conce...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56121676">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If we realize finally that crime couldn't be justified with crime this world be much, much better place to live!<br/>Strongly recommending! ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is translated from German and is the first book by Gunter Grass that I've read. <br/><br/>I couldn't really understand the book and it's implications and I kept thinking that the book would be better understood by people who are German or understand it's Nazi/war history.  <br/><br/>I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24537234">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a perfeect book but intensely interesting, informative, and thought-provoking.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[adroit augur comes to mind.  substantial look at post WWII in germany-a view of generations and how the cycle of facism perpetuates itself: nazi era grandmother, reunification era parents, the neo-nazi grandson who is cared for by the grandmother on account of the absent parents.  a great parallel l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12753941">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe I'm just dense, but I didn't quite &quot;get&quot; this book....It's told in a very kind of mish mashed choppy way i thought. The last couple of pages address what I thought was a central but unexplored theme to the book: the failed relationship of the father (also the narrator) and his son. T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35752320">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Exceptionally well written, though not an easy read.  The sinking of the Gustloff is told in elaborate detail. <br/><br/>The emotional detachment between the protagonist and the other characters and the disastrous circumstances of his birth lend an unexpected profundity to the reading experience....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18233274">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this book with my book group, which has a penchant for 'depressing literature.' I mean, thousands of dead people in the Baltic Sea, what's not to love? Seriously, though, I LOVED this book -- a tremendous insight into the Ossi vs. Wessi and how people in East Germany experienced World War II.]]></body>
    
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