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    <body><![CDATA[I read <em>Melanchta</em>, and mostly skimmed the other items in the collection. Gertrude Stein has a very unique style, and I think that I loved it and was fatigued by it at the same time. Something in her style of prose is akin to poetry, very dense and purposeful; every sentence is beautiful and every rep...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72579858">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[one can repeat themselves many different ways. She's made a science of doing it.<br/><br/>Important to remember that in her early career no one would publish her but her family published her so that was how she got started.<br/><br/>Same with ginsberg, but I liked his shit.<br/><br/>there's ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43679011">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never understood Stein's purported literary brilliance.  More often than not, her writing is trite, uninteresting, and pretentious.  She was a damn good marketer of her own importance, however.  ]]></body>
    
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