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This ...more...]]> 879188 9722100262 9789722100267 62 6 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179130931m/879188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/879188.Memorial_do_Convento 5 3 false Wed May 16 07:23:14 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 19:32:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2530 0156005204 9780156005203 631 65 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161054079m/2530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2530.Baltasar_and_Blimunda 2 2 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 16 20:06:34 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 16 20:06:34 -0800 2007 The Double, also by Saramago. But that book really stuck with me, while with Baltasar and Blimunda, I was just glad to finish it so I could return it to the library. I'...more...]]> 2530 0156005204 9780156005203 631 65 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161054079m/2530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2530.Baltasar_and_Blimunda 5 2 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Sep 14 09:36:34 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 11:41:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2530 0156005204 9780156005203 631 65 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161054079m/2530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2530.Baltasar_and_Blimunda 5 0 false Sun Oct 18 09:53:34 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 12:00:05 -0700 2009 HEADLINE: Being John Malkovich . . . . Excuse me. . . .I mean, Being José Saramago.


As I mentioned once before, I have given up that tedious worry as to whether the book in translation that I am reading is a faithful translation of the original or not. The book in front of me in Eng...more...]]> 2530 0156005204 9780156005203 631 65 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161054079m/2530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2530.Baltasar_and_Blimunda 3 0 false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 21:24:34 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 10:18:45 -0800 2009 Andersonville, which also lacks quotati...more...]]> 2530 0156005204 9780156005203 631 65 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161054079m/2530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2530.Baltasar_and_Blimunda 5 0 false Mon Nov 24 13:36:56 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 13:37:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1686884 1860462642 9781860462641 15 3 3.83 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1686884.Baltasar_and_Blimunda 2 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Sep 10 16:29:58 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 10 16:31:20 -0700 2007 6534259 6 1 3.83 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6534259-memorial-de-un-convento 4 0 false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 13:09:44 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 12:01:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2530 0156005204 9780156005203 631 65 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161054079m/2530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2530.Baltasar_and_Blimunda 5 0 false Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 08:03:11 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 13:15:18 -0700 2008
One of the brilliant things about this book is not that it knocks religion. There's nothing particularly original about that. It's that he attacks it not using inflammatory screeds or ...more...]]> 2530 0156005204 9780156005203 631 65 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161054079m/2530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2530.Baltasar_and_Blimunda 3 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu May 14 17:27:38 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 17:48:58 -0700 2009
Knowing this was based on real people (something I wouldn't have known if I hadn't read the last page first) added heft to this book.
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