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    <body><![CDATA[Gracias to my dad for recommending this book.  Certainly one of the most clever books that I've come across. The novel encourages thought about immortality and the ramifications of such a notion.  We would love to live forever if the living means that we are in our most perfect state indefinitely.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45721579">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was really amazing. Saramago asks the most intriguing philosophical questions and then builds a novel around them. I have Post-It flags sticking out all over the book where there are things I'd never thought of about immortality vs. death, descriptions and comparisons put so wonderfully th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37568073">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Situaciones imposibles que vuelven a darse en 'Las intermitencias de la muerte', cuyo comienzo no puede ser más sorprendente: 'Al día siguiente no murió nadie', y eso es lo que sucede en la novela: de la noche a la mañana, los habitantes de un país sin nombre dejan de morir y consiguen la ansia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20020229">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is classic Saramago. Totally brilliant and compelling, but also hard to read. I find the author's style (very little punctuation, LONG sentences and paragraphs) to require a lot of concentration. But as usual, it pays off with a clever story full of nuance.<br/><br/>The premise of this novel ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40122906">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't want this to be my first reading of Saramago. But as a friend left his book with me, I decided I would read it before I returned.<br/><br/>It's great! How can someone imagine a place where death no longer happens and how it rearranges the entire society! And also with a sense of humor.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12397350">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration -— flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life.<br/><br/>Then reality hits home —- families are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots.<br/><br/>Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small <em>d</em>,became human and were to fall in love?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first time being de-flowered by Mr. Saramago and man can this 86 year old put on the moves.  I have a feeling that after I read more Saramago this book will succumb to, what I call, the &quot;Toni Morrison&quot; effect.  This is when the oeuvre begins to lay its shadow over individual wor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49697641">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration—flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home—families are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots.<br/>Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small  became human and were to fall in love?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is an excellent reminder about why the judicious use of punctuation is important to the reading experience. I'm on page 21 now and I can barely remember anything about what I've read. So far I have seen only commas and periods. Each sentence takes up more than an inch of vertical page spac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80985676">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Book Review Death with interruptions By Jose Saramago<br/>Shevon Comeau<br/><br/>The book Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago is a unique point of view on the concept of death and the morals of life.  He starts with a very straight forward sentence that right away introduces you to the issu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79408017">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration -— flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life.<br/><br/>Then reality hits home —- families are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots.<br/><br/>Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small <em>d</em>,became human and were to fall in love?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The premise is deeply compelling: what happens when no one in a specific country dies? At first, you wouldn't think this a bad thing, but interestingly the story details many of the problems inherent with living forever. Simply put, it's a disaster. The modern economy depends upon life ending at som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77098276">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration -— flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life.<br/><br/>Then reality hits home —- families are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots.<br/><br/>Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small <em>d</em>,became human and were to fall in love?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The following day, no one died.&quot; Thus begins this odd little book in which Saramago imagines what happens in a country in which no one dies. People who should die remain just this side of death. At first, the country rejoices. Death is vanquished! But then reality sets in. Who will care f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63283267">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration -— flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life.<br/><br/>Then reality hits home —- families are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots.<br/><br/>Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small <em>d</em>,became human and were to fall in love?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book reviewers always (not always...not all book reviewers...some) start with the quote &quot;The following day, no one died&quot;<br/>For this to make sense you must know that death is a female and towards the end of the book she speculates about a dog<br/>&quot;...if his death, the other death, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55066161">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In a country whose name is not mentioned, something never before seen since the beginning of time happens: death decides to stop its unflagging track and people stop dying. From that moment on, the destiny of human kind will be to live eternally. A short period of euphoria is followed by despair and chaos. People search for ways to trick death into killing; the elderly are seen with the hatred reserved only for that which we cannot alter. Nobel Prize winner (1998) Jose Saramago offers a literary narrative that centers on human perplexity when faced with one of the unavoidable realities of our existence - death.]]>
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