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    <body><![CDATA[guerillas is an incredible work.  it is dark, sharp, graphic, emotionally honest.  naipaul captures the violent mind forged out of colonialism and his characters are people who can only relate to one another through the framework of power struggle, racism, self-hatred.  towards the end of the book, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished this today.  In terms of its ability to build tension, fill readers with a sense of dread - the sense that something horrible is about to happen - Guerillas may be one of the finest novels I've read.  Naipaul's writing is beautifully descriptive: from the opening chapter we are solid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78148568">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Death, sex, and revolution make up this book, though mostly it follows the stories of elitist white people selfishly mourning their miserably alienated lives.  If you like reading the words &quot;decay&quot; and &quot;desolation&quot; over and over, enjoy!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Livre franchement sinistre, qui explore le coté sombre de l'être ’humain. Cela donne des portraits intéressants, notamment un ancien militant anti-apartheid qui se retrouve par la force des choses au service d’une entreprise exploitant les richesses d’une petite île. Mais on est souvent à...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70593839">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a twisted tale of sex - the post british colony setting, the political struggle, these are just some of the decoys Naipual employs to shield the reader from the truth of what type of story they are really reading. When you uncoil what you have actually read, what is left lying around yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29196783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Naipaul takes all of his misanthropic hatred and winds it like a tightly-coiled spring through the broad length of this novel, before releasing it at the end. As usual his racism and misogyny are thinly-concealed as well. It is a frightening experience.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is terrible. I really believe this author does not understand women at all, because the way he writes the female character Jane is awful, both in quality of writing and in terms of believability. She is completely unrealistic and I think he uses the word &quot;schoolgirl&quot; twice in eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33044481">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a disturbing book, which is a powerful statement.  It describes a third world scene wrought by violence and hopelessness.   I am stuck deciding whether the characters are stock figures: Jimmy Ahmed the nihlistic and opportunistic ghetto warrior turned revolutionary, Roche, the do-gooder lib...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23057631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Short Novel set on a troubled Caribbean Island and the tensions simmering under the surface due to the colonial past. Powerful writing, graphic in places, good book]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although he is a beautiful writerI found this book to be quite sexist.  The only female characters are the maid, the socialite, and the barnacle.  I feel none of them were complete or complex characters and it all ends with the rape and murder of the female character who used men for a free ride.  d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22654067">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a fun read. A brutal and brutalizing look at stunted lives in late twentieth century colonial Africa.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up at a used book store yesterday for 50 cents along with a half dozen other Naipaul paperbacks.  This was the first book of his that I read and that was back in 1979 or 1980.  It made a huge impression on me, I thought it was a great story and great writing and I'm looking forward to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33281984">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully written - really disturbing at the end - a psychological unraveling like Heart of Darkness - did Jimmy win in the end?  Is Roche going to tell?  (I don't think so...) I think no one has power at the end, everyone is vulnerable to something, and this reflects the disorder in society, lack...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25503283">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am usually a fan of V.S. Naipaul, but this was not one of my favorites. While many of his books deal with the ugliness of post-colonialism, few of them are as dark and heavy as this one.  It was really unpleasant to read at times.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strange book.  I am not familiar with Naipaul´s other work, which is what may have put this book out of context for me.  Not a hard read, but very strange and I´m not sure what was being said.]]></body>
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    <review id="1234643">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Dec 16 19:30:29 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dark and gritty. You just feel awful by the time you finish, but i still think its worthwhile. A necessary perspective shift.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 16 20:05:31 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[i'm pretty sure v.s. naipaul has a redeeming feature that i have yet to discover.]]></body>
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    <review id="23692190">
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    <name><![CDATA[Hava]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[disturbing book...but so well written]]></body>
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    <review id="6666067">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[had to return, will go back to some day...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 07 20:48:24 -0800 2006</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[a short but excellent look at colonialism.]]></body>
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