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    <body><![CDATA[duras is incredible. this book messed me up, in all sorts of brilliant ways. i love it. i tell everyone to read it. the prose is beautiful; the story is miserably familiar in strange ways. i think you'll like it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book contains the most interesting writing I've ever read. I don't know what you call it, stream of consciousness? At first, I didn't like it at all. I thought it was grammatically incorrect. Somehow she makes this disturbing tale romantic, beautiful, aesthetically pleasing, evocative. But I st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29420034">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have adored some of Duras' other writings (especially The Lover), but didn't enjoy this one at all. It felt disjointed and hard to follow and I had no affection for any of the characters. It took me ages to get through what should have been a quick read. Because I know she was an incredible writer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43533803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ARGH!  I don't even know what to say about this book.  I didn't like it. Everytime I read it, I felt compelled to take a nap. Read ten pages...then NAP. Perhaps it was because the story wore out my brain. Was Duras trying to drive me mad like Lol? In the beginnning I kept wondering, &quot;Who is the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12296411">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[نوشتن، قصه نقل كردن نيست. خلاف اين است. نوشتن نقل همه چيز است در عين حال، نقل توأمان داستان و غيبت داستان است؛ نقل داستان است از گذر غيبت داستان.<br/>لل زني است كه رنج را ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Duras at her best, truly.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Il y a quelque chose de véritable de Lol: son vide, sa tristesse -- ou encore plus précisément, son manque de tristesse.  Cela dit, j'ai trouvé qu'après du temps, l'histoire commence à glisser -- trop vrai des nouveaux romans, je pense.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have copies in both French and English so I think I'll read the French and use the English as a crutch.<br/><br/>Duras is an exquisite writer and this novel is one of her best. Almost haunting the way she brings you deeply inside the personal relations, especially when one of the characters migh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46195104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tale of a woman who loses her sanity when rejected. Duras tends to eroticise consciousness. But, the distinction of madness is love. <br/><br/>&quot;she had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become<br/><br/><br/> ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the gestures of obsession and the re-ness of it...  <br/><br/>&quot;It would have been an absence-word, a hole-word, whose center would have been hollowed out into a hole, the kind of hole in which all other words have been buried.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Duras somehow manages to touch the darkest corners of a woman's solitude, while the realness of her stories blur the line between fiction and reality... Lol is every one of us.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I left this book with the keen desire to read more of the author far more than with any sense of enlightenment.  I like the writing and the porn.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i thought this was highly disturbing at first, now, it is still disturbing. and beautiful. and penetrating. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good, I guess, but not quite as good as <em>The Ravishing of ROTFLMAO Stein</em>.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[شیدایی لول و.اشتاین<br/>ترجمه پرویز شهدی<br/>نشر ققنوس]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you know about desire and being crazy, read this book. ]]></body>
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