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    <body><![CDATA[I like Kundra because he doesn’t imprison me in a fastened frame of a classic narration. Reading Kundra seems as if you meet an old friend after ages in a cafe shop, and while she/he relates her / his life story, you zip your coffee, listen to the cafe music, hear some chats and laughs at nabourin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50695">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Short stories from Milan Kundera, author of <em>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</em>.  These stories are fiction, of course, with the subject matter typically dealing with romance, sex, and relationships.  It's an easy, enjoyable read, but there's a genius to it, in that the stories contain so many lessons...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66269718">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think the short story is the perfect vehicle for Milan Kundera.  Writing a tight, focused narrative is definitely not one of his strengths as a writer, and these stories aren't long enough to get the reader perturbed by that.  Also, he can't get overly preachy within the confines of a 40-page shor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1126243">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[how can somebody be so clever to create stories from things we don't think would deserve to be a story!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[آموزگار خندید«اما در این موضوع تناقض وجود دارد.»ادواردگفت «قضیه را همان طور که هست برایتان تعریف کردم.خیلی خوب می دانم که اعتقاد به خداوند مارا از واقعیت دور می کند. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73187736">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[به نظر من عنوان کتاب مناسب نبود  عنوانی مانند در هزارتوی عشق  یا لایه های پنهان یا یک چیز دیگر خیلی مناسب تر بود ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[well, though i'm currently not quite winning at the game of love, it's some consolation to know that the rest of the human race is losing right along with me. and isn't that just hilarious??<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Little white lies turn into existential crises, and hefty debates arise between knowledge and truth: It's Kundera. As one of his earlier works, Laughable Loves is more simple and honest than others that I've read, and therefore extremely subtle its nuances. It's not as beautiful as his later writing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75518979">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All about relationships.  The pain, the absurdity, the funniness of the pain.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[En realidad son 3 y medio, casi 4 estrellas pero no del todo..... y siento que no estoy siendo justa con el libro porque principalmente lo estoy comparando con la otra obra de Kundera que conozco  y no desde la perspectiva en general. Pero no puedo evitarlo, tal vez si me hubieran dado el libro con ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34960231">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[کتابی که میلان کوندرا تحت عنوان عشق‌های خنده‌دار نوشت دارای هفت داستان کوتاه است، اما ترجمهٔ این کتاب به فارسی فقط ۴ داستان از این مجموعه را در بر می‌گیرد و ۳ داستا...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21020579">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reason being it's a collection of short stories that gives a feel of Kundera's themes, characters and style. A couple of the stories are very striking. 'Nobody will laugh' sets the tone for some of his other books, 'Symposium' is wild and 'The Hitchhiking Game' keeps you interested till the end. The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1003110">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a great study of sexual conquest, manipulation, .  Chocked full of self-absorbed characters and I'd like to say impossibly easy targets, but can't bring myself to do so.  At the end of each story the physical top is revealed to be an emotional bottom.  I've found this is all to common i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17069975">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I began this book and was frustrated by it and Kundera's ideas of love.  They seem juvenile and sexist.  Then I read more and realized that though some of his ideas are bullshit enveloped in rationalization, his prose is beautiful and makes you think about things in a different manner.<br/><br/>I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44961344">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just could not get into this book. I read and loved The Unbearable Lightness of Being, but this collection of short stories left me cold. I felt like the writing was dry and the characters insufficiently developed, and the plots of the stories were not enough to make up for it. And the tinge of mi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53831680">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[J'avais déjà lu plusieurs Kundera et je voulais avoir confirmation que je n'arrivais pas à apprécier son oeuvre à sa juste valeur : et c'est totalement vrai ! J'arrive pas à adhérer à son style trop limpide, simple car je ne peux alors pas m'empêcher de lire très vite. Le fait est, et c'es...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30306782">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 06 11:35:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Skip &quot;Symposium&quot; and &quot;Dr. Havel After Twenty Years.&quot; (The longest stories and also the worst.)<br/><br/>&quot;Nobody Will Laugh,&quot; &quot;Eduard and God,&quot; &quot;The Golden Apple of Desire,&quot; and &quot;The Hitchhiking Game&quot; are the prime cuts.<br/><br/>&quot;L...]]></body>
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    <review id="67572522">
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    <body><![CDATA[Short stories-some are really painfully raw and well told, but most of them are just hysterically funny. Kundera exposes his characters weaknesses and pokes fun at them in a way that isn't cruel but instead real and darkly funny. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Short stories are popular with me because I am often too busy to sit down with a novel and give it the single focus it requires. Kundera in his usual, fine form here.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kundera's short stories are just like miniature versions of his novels, except maybe even lighter and more graceful, and with more frequent flashes of humor. All of this is good news. ]]></body>
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