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  <title><![CDATA[Glengarry Glen Ross]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;div&gt;Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough characters who cajole, connive, wheedle, and wheel and deal for a piece of the action -- where closing a sale can mean a brand new cadillac but losing one can mean losing it all. This masterpiece of American drama is now a major motion picture starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin, Alex Baldwain, Jonathan Pryce, Ed Harris, and Kevin Spacey. &lt;/div&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1982</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Glengarry Glen Ross</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[David Mamet]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excerpt from a reflection:<br/><br/>&quot;It is very plain in reading the play that Mamet has given almost no stage direction; he limits the creation of dramatic tension to the field of dialogue, forcing the audience to take any meaning from only the words that are spoken and the messages that may o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61747824">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reread this recently.  The only reason I don't give this five stars is because this is the one exception I can think of where the movie (also written by Mamet) is better than the book, though the immorality of just about everyone involved is much more stark in the original version.  A must for anyon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38634005">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one time the movie is as good as the play.  Jack Lemmon was extraordinary.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Glengarry Glen Ross<em> is not a play for everyone. Well, if you like a bunch of desperate, pathetic, and amoral men hurling verbal abuse at one another, then this play is definitely for you. If that sort of subject matter is something you find palatable, then you might want to give it a try. To me, Dav...</em></em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1171201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74133508">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[   When I first read the play, it was very hard to understand what was happening. All I could comprehend was the gratuitous cursing and that it had something to do with real estate. After my class talked about it and I saw part of a movie version, I could better appreciate how hard it is to be a sal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74133508">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[lovers of choppy, desperate, real dialogue]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[only like every magazine reference to Mamet ever]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[After seeing Mamet hailed over and over again in the pages of Esquire and GQ (although now that I think about it, maybe it was merely referenced rather than hailed), this one's been on my list for a while. Plus, Alec Baldwin was in the movie - how could this NOT be good?<br/><br/>As my star-rating...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19956687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was amazing when I saw it on Broadway, but reading it didn't affect me as much. I mean, obviously, a play is meant to be seen performed and not read but even so, most plays I'm not so indifferent toward when I read them. Maybe I wasn't in the mood, I don't know.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd somehow managed to avoid reading this play and seeing the movie until this year, and I'm not really sure why. I thought both of them hilarious and some-word-I-can-substitute-for-interesting, since I seem to use that word too often to describe books I like. Mamet does what I increasingly apprecia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9504589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ages since I read any Mamet.  You forget how...I mean the sentences...Okay, alright--OKAY...I mean they just...nothing ever...they all just...ah fuck it.]]></body>
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    <review id="59949018">
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    <body><![CDATA[I can’t imagine a time when this play will become irrelevant. So long as desperate people clash in a frantic grab for clients and payoffs, this play will have a place. The real estate market is just set dressing for the gripping human drama Mamet executes. Now that I’ve worked for a private comp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59949018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39796415">
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    <body><![CDATA[what is our life? it's looking forward or it's looking back. that's our life. that's it. where is the moment??]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 17 10:33:31 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[hilarious; sooo many swear words. :)<br/>Although a bit hard to understand since there are so many &quot;...&quot; (and they leave words out sometimes). But yeah..]]></body>
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    <review id="11832367">
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    <body><![CDATA[Have you ever been trapped by your own deception and felt a wave of regret boil up from your lungs, jab past your heart and stick in your neck before it punches free and adles your brain til it's hot and numb? No? Well...me neither. But, I imagine that's what it 'might feel like' when you're snared ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11832367">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[stunning dialogue but, as a whole, i'm not sure i get it.]]></body>
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    <review id="1139115">
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    <body><![CDATA[Honestly, I thought I'd hate this play. Then I saw it with Liev Schreiber and Alan Alda and was engrossed. This is an incredibly hard play to pull off on stage (there's something about Mamet's stylized dialogue that requires truly talented actors). Probably one of the ten best productions I've ever ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1139115">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i saw the local theater's version of this play before reading it, so that influenced what i thought of the written version. anyway, the thing that really struck me was the use of the f-word. i haven't read mamet before, so that was...a surprise. also, the entire thing was unrealistic - maybe the kin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18507895">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19972349">
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    <name><![CDATA[Swati]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I appreciate Mamet, but I don't really like him.  In this play, Mamet explores the world of the real estate salesman and presents this world of overly-sexualized-because-they-are compensating men.  While I really think he foregrounds language well, I'm not that interested in his world because he giv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19972349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I spent a couple months working as a temp at the front desk of Penn State's theater department offices.  They had tons of plays in their department library, and when I pulled <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/251446.Glengarry_Glen_Ross_An_Evergreen_Book_" title="Glengarry Glen Ross (An Evergreen Book) by David Mamet">Glengarry Glen Ross</a> off the shelves, I was really disappointed to find out that Alec Baldwin's character wasn't in the origin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/305678">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first Mamet play I ever read (and I think one of the first plays I read, period, outside of class.)  I remember thinking as I was reading it, 'Wtf???  This guy's writing is gibberish!'  Then I - how should I say? - got the cut of his playwriting jib, and all was right in the world again....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/168836">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a so-so Mamet play, but a legendary one.  The tale of a crowded, dingy roomful of salesmen is often referenced (steak knives!) and is found on the shelf of most self-respecting theatre snobs.  Though at times the characters come off as too smarmy or stupid to be completely sympathetic, Mamet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9861279">more...</a>]]></body>
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