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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;the significance of a dream, we're told, has less to do with its overt drama than with the details; a long time ago it struck me that the same was true of real life, of what passes among us for real life.&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;we brick ourselves up in prisons of our own devising, we spend our...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10158508">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Taking this to Kauai...<br/><br/>...Man this is a strange little book! I was thinking I'd give it 3 stars, but I am throwing in 1 more for its confounding factor. Yes, this book totally confounded me. The narrator speaks in these endless, circular, self conscious, amusing sentences, full of all ki...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28711550">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[First of all: it is funny. And short. and my son Nicco gave it to me to read, so automatically it gets 4 stars. It IS a translation  and, while well done, I can feel it. The odd thread, that opens and closes the book, is how publicly shared events (the death of a famous person, the path of a satelli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22753861">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bear with me. This review requires some background. A couple weeks ago I posted a review of Sophie Calle's <em>Exquisite Pain</em>. A week ago I read a review in the NYT about Bouillier's <em>Report on Myself</em> (which not only won the 2002 Prix de Flore, but is translated by Bruce Benderson, who won the same prize...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47310775">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[WARNING:<br/>This book may be at first frustrating for the active reader. Don't miss the forest for the (seemingly) gnarled trees. The Mystery Guest delivers on both a micro and macro level if given the chance to find its footing. There is the temptation to give up before the book wins you over, bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50787257">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Grégoire Bouillier’s The Mystery Guest is a small but powerful volume about love lost and - eventually - gotten over. Bouillier’s ex-girlfriend calls one day and invites him to be the “mystery guest” at a party of a friend of hers. This invitation causes Bouillier to go on a frantic and man...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64372177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A slight but entertaining novel. The author seamlessly incorporates a great deal of French thought into the narration while keeping it readable. Fans of Bernhard will recognize the  very obvious homage to him in Boullier's first-person narration, and may want to read this book solely for the oddness...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4582053">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Have you had your heart broken?  Are you an existentialist?  Do you yearn for the chance to participate in performance art?  If you've answered yes to all three questions then this book is for you.  I found it by accident in a used bookstore and I've read it three times already.  It appeals to littl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19776334">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While reading this I felt the narrator was a little self involved, but there's a point in the book that everything changed for me. He stopped being so into himself and started making a lot of sense. It's a short book and when I finished it I wanted to read it start to finish in bed enjoying every se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5605506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Half way through I was furious at its self absorption and lack of economy, but the end won me over a little. It's sort of about literary paranoia (in the strict sense): that events in one's life can begin to align with signs from literature and art. Involves Sophie Calle...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bouillier has written a brief but excellent memoir about his own self-doubt and sense of loss. His subjects are heavy and existential even as his prose remains fairly light and humorous. I'm looking forward to more translations of his work.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was immediately drawn into the obsessive internal world of Bouillier, who receives an invitation to be a mystery guest at an artist's birthday party from the woman who'd left him without a world four years before and hadn't contacted him till that fateful call.  I read on, captivated by his neuros...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46363746">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bouillier's book covers a phone call, a party, and a few conversations, but from such meager fuel comes pure wisdom. After the author was cruelly and mysteriously dumped by his girlfriend, she calls him out of the blue, as they say, after five years of incommunicado. She would like him to be the &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/171303">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A bit of French navel gazing, yes, but this compact book was remarkable. I really loved it. It was poignant and funny, and I devoured it in a long afternoon in the azalea garden of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. <br/>I lent it to my landlord, because she was heading to Paris, and I thought she wou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70983233">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was touch and go for me, but the end was well worth the few hours I spent reading it - I closed the back cover with a huge smile on my face. All the rambling pages of Bouillier's inner dreams and frustrations piece together beautifully in the last 25 pages or so, and the end, ('as they say...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45857546">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Pouco importava agora que ela tivesse me abandonado sem uma palavra nem explicação. Isso não contava mais. Estava esquecido. Finalmente esquecido.&quot;<br/><br/>É aqui que Grégoire se redime ou talvez, explique o seu relacionamento com Sophie.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those very &quot;French&quot; novels that is hard to describe but I will do my best. Basically this is the story of a man who has been invited by his ex-lover to be the mystery guest at an artists home. The man agonizes over the meaning of the invitation since the ex-lover left him wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5965005">more...</a>]]></body>
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