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  <title><![CDATA[The Sot-Weed Factor]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Barth]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 17 08:45:54 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[For whatever reason, most people don't read John Barth anymore, and that's a shame.  When people are looking for classic postmodern literature (as much of a paradox as that is), they generally go to Thomas Pynchon.  Reading Pynchon always felt  like a bit of a let-down to me, though, and now that I'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3169286">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41866926">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a toss up whether to give this 4 or 5 stars. In the end I went with 4 because giving it 5 would leave no clear category for books that are even better. I tend to ignore people who rate everything as a 5.<br/><br/>Having said that, The Sot-Weed Factor is a great read. In high school one of my cl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41866926">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61145932">
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  <date_added>Thu Jun 25 21:24:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 25 21:32:58 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this out loud, which is a good experience.  Older novels were designed for reading out loud and this one is very at home with being in the style of the earlier period (17th century).  Having trouble deciding its agenda.  At times, it seems its interest extends no farther than being a histori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61145932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43935600">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 22 09:33:58 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 22 09:51:50 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious and wonderfully ribald treatment of the nature of innocence, identity and good works in the 'New World'. Barth's shining moments are his mimickry of 17th century poetry, the constant barrage of fart jokes, and his satirical retelling of the John Smith/Pocahontas story, in which John Smith ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43935600">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62564831">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 07 19:38:00 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 03 15:43:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely hysterical. I almost groaned and put the book back down when I realized it's done in the style of Tom Jones, but thank GOD I made myself finish the second chapter because right at the end John Barth slips something that made me shake my head and re-read the last paragraph at least five mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62564831">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22193131">
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 13 18:39:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 06 19:35:06 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I appreciate what Barth does in this novel, essentially riffing on the 18th century historical novel (I believe the Sot-Weed Factor was published around 1960).  He does it with a great deal of humor and, at least it seems to me, authenticity.  Alas, I have tried twice and I just can't read more than...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22193131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2738653">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mike]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 05 09:51:25 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 18 07:30:53 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Please don't be put off by the size of this book, or by any reviews saying it is a difficult read.  It's true it is a big, big book, and it is written in the language of an 18th century novel, but it's actually a fairly quick and largely fun read.  This was my first Barth, but I definitely plan on r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2738653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40513524">
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    <name><![CDATA[ryan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Portland, OR]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 20 03:36:18 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 20 03:44:31 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this the summer i lived in the alf haus. i liked it at the time but a year or so later, in doing some research on colonial maryland, i wrote of critique on barth and his floating brothel inspired by a historian who could only devote a line to the anachronism. while i don't consider it an anac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40513524">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57172513">
    <user id="1277944">
    <name><![CDATA[Alice]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun May 24 13:41:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 24 13:54:59 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is a truly marvelous book in so many ways: history, humor, and storytelling are just three of its virtues.  I had a low level hum going on a majority of pages as I chortled to myself.  I also particularly enjoyed the fact that John Barth wrote this book using the syntax and spellings from several...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57172513">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58333718">
    <user id="2174008">
    <name><![CDATA[John]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 03 15:05:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 03 15:06:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Marylanders, Colonial historians, and lovers of a good yarn alike owe it to themselves to read this Candide of the modern age. Barth weaves a complex and compelling tapestry of circumstance and characters that will make your head spin. I can't describe it well enough here to do it justice. Please ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58333718">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60475484">
    <user id="2235507">
    <name><![CDATA[Lark]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 20 20:54:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 16 08:38:07 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There were things in this book I found hilarious.  There's no cruder, raunchier, and probably truer-to-history retelling of the American colonial period.  It's a zing of social commentary, no question.  <br/>So I had a hard time with the depiction of women.  If they weren't calculating heartless b*...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60475484">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32899713">
    <user id="688965">
    <name><![CDATA[Sean]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 14 22:16:25 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 18 11:04:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A completely preposterous, hilarious and brilliant book about, among a million other things, the evils of innocence. Written beautifully in 17th century prose, in which time the book is set. About Ebeneezer Cooke, possibly the poet laureate of the colony of Maryland, depending on whom you believe, w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32899713">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37032432">
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    <name><![CDATA[Allison]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 06 09:05:11 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 24 17:30:00 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't make a habit of having strong opinions about books I couldn't finish, but since it was my dislike of the book, then I will go ahead.  This was tedious--clever, yes; intelligent, yes; well-researched, yes.  None of that excuses over 800 pages of dull, Thackeray-type torture. <br/><br/>I wil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37032432">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67015728">
    <user id="2263507">
    <name><![CDATA[Will]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Aug 11 18:55:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent, hilarious book. Expanded my vocabulary more than probably any other book, as well as my knowledge of the history of colonial Maryland (it was the first place in North America where religious tolerance was embraced. Who knew?). Also, lots of prostitutes, lots of intrigue. My only complaint...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67015728">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53938857">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mike]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun May 10 23:53:52 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Outlandish.  Uproariously funny.  Very clever.<br/><br/>Duplicity to the point where the reader doubts even her own identity, shameless coincidences of familial relationship, and an absurd, tangled skein of intrigue in which right and wrong are as constant as the weathercock.  All this, set to swa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53938857">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28038396">
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    <name><![CDATA[A.C.]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 12 23:35:51 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Oct 12 23:35:51 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a good book, but it's not my style. I thoroughly enjoy Barth, but the renaissance-style prose left me confused and primarily disinterested. Reading isn't a chore to me; reading this book was a chore. <br/><br/>To people who are into Don Quixote, also another book which lost my interest, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28038396">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <location><![CDATA[Denver, CO]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, was this book ever a wild ride!  I don't think I ever envisioned a retelling of the events surrounding John Smith and Pocahantas being retold, nor did I particularly care, but this book was great!  I always love revisionist versions of stories which have been told to us so many times that they ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18187432">more...</a>]]></body>
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