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    <body><![CDATA[Apuleius is eerily familiar to a modern eye.  His seamless blending of suggested mystery cults, Platonic references, and frolicking humor and sexuality make The Golden Ass an entertainment worth repeating.  Whether or not the reader is intent on making a sustained foray into the issue of book 11 and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4461614">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the only Roman novel to survive in its entirety, and I for one wish more of them had made it.  The Golden Ass is one of very few books I've read more than once.<br/><br/>Lucius (a character very loosely based on the author) is a young citizen growing up in a Roman provincial town in Greece...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53639392">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't believe I've never read this before. I can't believe this book was never a part of any of the numerous classes I took in literature. I feel robbed.<br/><br/>I've just finished it and I've immediately started re-reading it. There's too much there to really get it all with one read. Some of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78401583">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strange, fragmented, hilarious...perhaps the original road novel, on donkey hooves. Bestiality, human foibles, and shenanigans galore. The weird cult-of-Isis ending is the worst since Upton Sinclair's crappy socialist-conversion ending to &quot;the Jungle,&quot; tho.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an hysterically funny proto-picaresque novel, translated from the Latin. The conceit is the narrator gets turned into an ass (donkey, for you euphemists) and has many adventures, exploring the foibles of men.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is one of the ancient texts that convinced me that western religion hasn't changed all that much in thousands of years--it's all about salvation and messiah-figures ... and men turning into donkeys. so cool!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By the Gods, the Greeks knew how to do tragedy!  I completely forgot how much I loved mythology and fables and epic tales of tragedy and triumph until I started reading this.  Numerous times, I had to put the book down and compose myself because of some sense of righteous indignation or massive frus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73575032">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is stimulating. I wanted to throw it out the window a couple of times because of its hilarity that made me want to vomit at times. I also had to go back more times that I can count on both of my hands, as the syntax is rather advanced. I was never into mythology, but with Joseph Campbell a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78281390">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28765602">
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book. I plann to re-read after Battle Royal. It was originally written in the 2nd century AD. The translation I have is from 1566, so if you have any other books from this time period good to read after. Well wortrh the thee's and thou's! It is a redemption story. Our hero, while a guest at a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28765602">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Spending every summer of childhood in a cabin in the woods without television, I became quite a reader early on.  Much of what I read was determined by what I could find--mostly books owned by my grandmother, Lajla.<br/><br/>The Golden Ass was a desperate choice.  It had the advantage of not being...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19988877">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not my translation - I have the Penguin edition.<br/>Anyways, dudes, this book is awesome and you must read it. You are probably thinking, &quot;ugh, it was written like 2000 years ago, and its probably super boring&quot;. But no, you must read it. It is like an earlier version of <em>The Cante...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76665280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably the most fascinating book I've ever read, partly because it introduced me to the episodic and picaresque traditions, partly because of the tale-within-a-tale of Cupid and Psyche. I recently picked up another translation at Borders and started to compare them. Wow! I found nothing to compare...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80068510">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lucius wanted to change from man to an animal, but he was caught in the series of unfortunate events which ended with desired change but not in to what he wanted to change. He became an ass and started the Roman road story. I think it was the first road story with such sharp and twisted humor. Luciu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14799691">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe you have to be in the right mood for a book like this, although it's interesting to see how much is relevant to the modern reader, and how little requires to be explained.  Obviously many themes are eternal.<br/><br/>Narrator Lucius is transformed into an ass fairly early on in the narrative...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12611056">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. Greek Mythology is one of my favorite things. The only problems I had with it was the changing of names and religions, parts are Greek Names, parts are Roman God names and the end is Egyptian gods. but otherwise it was a great story and a great book]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Part bawdy tale, part dirty joke, the Godden Ass also includes the most lyric retelling of Psyche and Cupid this poor boy's ever read as well as an amazingly beautiful description of initiation into the Thessalian cult of Isis.  A must read for anyone interested in classical epics or the further wor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67810451">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I admit it, I only read this book because of its title.  This is a good book, though, and is similar to other books like Don Quixote, Candide, and A Cool Million where a character for whatever reasons leaves home and encounters a number of brutal and bizarre strangers.  I have to emphasis the &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16429589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easier to read than most classics,funny and witty, it ends up with the beautifully moving-for a Pagan-conversion of lucius to his saviour, Goddess Isis, and with one of the most loving and beuatiful prayers ever written to the Goddess.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[	The Golden Ass - read it for the Cupid and Psyche story in the middle (and compare to Lewis) - and for a picture of a decadent Roman world in the second century AD.  It's stories would make Chaucer's miller blush.  Lucius, a wealthy Roman citizen who dabbles unwisely in magic, finds himself turned ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34975649">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So, I happened to be looking at this book, titled '1001 books to read before you die' (I have a thing for list books) and my OCD kicked in and I was compelled to begin reading all the books listed from beginning to end.  So that is how this book made onto my reading list.  And for being over 2000 ye...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19263936">more...</a>]]></body>
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