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    <body><![CDATA[I made a promise to myself that I woudl actively work toward reading all of the books listed on the 1001 books to read before you die list. Sometimes I’ve pouted through the books and then there are times where the list leads me to a new author and gem that I would have missed completely.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63683687">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was not at all what I expected, especially the identity of Miss Lonelyhearts, but I liked it a lot.  The tone reminds me a bit of Invisible Man--sort of detached and ironic.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My coming to know Nathanael West was like rounding a corner and accidentally running smack into a stranger who thereafter instantly becomes your best friend. I knew almost nothing about him before picking up this greying little 100 page book for a dollar at Black Oak. When I'd finished it a couple o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22174449">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nathanael West was killed in a car crash in 1940, at the age of 37.  He left behind him a very small body of work – one short novel and three novellas.  He was virtually unknown during his lifetime but his reputation has grown steadily since his death.  His best-known work is probably his novella ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20853825">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I really wanted to like this book, it's just too dim and cynical even for me. Everytime I pick it up to read, I get a few pages and then have to go off in search of more heartening material. This is the sort of book that makes me think, &quot;Are there really people like this in the world? ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32802705">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The beautifully bound double edition caught my eye, but I only got through Miss Lonelyhearts, hence I'm only rating Miss Lonelyhearts. Even though it was a very slim volume it was pretty difficult to get through. The writing was sloppy and the plotting was sloppy. This is territory that Henry Miller...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67881420">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[(from back cover) Miss Lonelyhearts was a newspaper reporter, so named because he had been assigned to write the agony column, to answer the letters from Desperate, Sick-of-It-All, Disillusioned.  A joke at first; but then he was caught up, terrifyingly, in a vision of suffering, and he sought a way out, turning first here, the there--Art, Sex, Religion.  Shrike, the cynical editor, the friend and enemy, compulsively destroyed each of his friend's gestures toward idealism.  Together, in the city's dim underworld, Shrike and Miss Lonelyhearts turn round and round in a loathsome dance, unresolvable, hating until death]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perfectly set in the often isolating and depressing NYC, West captures the disillusionment of a male reporter forced to write the old version of what, today, we'd call the Dear Abby column.  He answers letters from essentially suicidal people with artificial, vague, chin-up advice, until the day he ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/167937">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<em>Miss Lonelyhearts</em> is an unnamed male newspaper columnist writing an advice column which is viewed by the newspaper as a joke. As &quot;Miss Lonelyhearts&quot; reads letters from desperate New Yorkers, he feels terribly burdened and falls into a cycle of deep depression, accompanied by heavy drinking and occasional barfights.<br/><br/><em>Miss Lonelyhearts</em> is Nathanael West's second novel.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a bizarre book.  Maybe it's that it was written so long ago, but I just found so many of the dialogue, scenes, and situations so strange that I didn't get people's responses to anything about 95% of the time.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A strong, moving and well-written little book. A shame about that heavy-handed Christ allegory which kept ticking away in the background.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Strange. Hurried. Bleak. It's hard to like these characters. It's hard to feel anything about these characters.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, it was either this or The Day of the Locust. Or was it both?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you take your humor black &#8211; <strong>pitch black</strong> &#8211; Nathanael West's <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Miss Lonelyhearts" title="Miss Lonelyhearts">Miss Lonelyhearts</a></em> (1933) may be for you. It's so dark that most of the time I could hardly make it out. Reading it felt like being locked in a dingy, stinking closet with a dozen rabid rats squirming up the legs of my trousers.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29534025">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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