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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Casanova in Bolzano&quot; lacks the economy of language that I really admire in Marai's other works. There were sections where I just wanted to say, &quot;COME ON. We got it.&quot; Long monologues by old men, caught up in arguments about love, sex, seduction, loss, death... Let's move on. How ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10086670">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Combine a loquacious narrator, who really enjoys telling and embellishing a good story, with a protagonist who, in his own right, has a flair for the self-elevating bombastic, and you have a story with many enthusiastic and jovial words but with very slow forward progress.  At page 100/294, the basi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21983536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think I'll ever put a book down after only 30 pages ever again.  Thank goodness I picked it up again after a friend's recommendation.  <br/>Yes, it's wordy, has extremely long monologues, but the last 100 pages or so make it worth it!  Actually almost directly after I'd given up, it improve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21982058">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel by Marai was not in the same league as &quot;Embers&quot; (an absolute classic), but is still a worthwhile read.  He develops the Casanova character extremely well - painting a very different picture than most would imagine.<br/><br/>It did take more than half of the book to really get ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47316669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, I admit, I actually scanned this book rather than read it word for word.  But when the author uses the word &quot;blockhead&quot; as a comment made by one of the characters -a book set in the mid 17-century, mind you, I find it rather hard to take the rest of the book seriously and my interest h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30253981">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After the great success of 'Embers&quot; this fell soewhat flat. All the ingredients were there but the book seemed to be treading such similar ground: most of the book is gearing towards the Conversation, a kind of offer you can't refuse. I suppose put that way it does bring out the issue of free w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54105267">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Casanova in Bolzano&quot; is unreadable. And I mean that in every sense of the word. I haven't had this much difficulty reading a book since &quot;Ulysses&quot; (which I've never actually read, because it's what, class? UNREADABLE). I'm not sure if it lost a lot in translation or if Marai's wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36106217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read it this summer when I was desperate for something to read in Turkey and it was the only English language book in the shop. Loved it! Full of moving quotes on life and love. Life-affirming.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I am sort of struggling through Embers (which is probably more about my current state of mind than the actual novel) I am reminded of Conversations, an unassuming paperback that accompanied me on a trans-atlantic flight, into a handful of cafes, and even got me through some cardio at the gym.  Ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2575928">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author, Marai, is good at long monologues, and is a talented writer, but I thought this was pretty lame overall. Just having seen the trailer for the movie Casanova ruined the entire book (nothing new, nothing added, he wrote exactly what you would expect) and I felt as though I'd read it before...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24562277">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An extraordinary study of the multi-faceted nature of love, desire, possession, humiliation, just about everything that can unite, or not, two people. I loved it, and preferred it to Embers, which I also liked very much but found its teasingly delayed denouements slightly ponderous... ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book just didn't have the same momentum that <em><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/783505.Embers">Embers</a></em> did, or maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it. But I only got about 50 pages in before I lost interest. And that's all I have to say about it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was so taken by 'Embers' that I bought the first Marai book that I could find. So far it's a great read. The honesty and humor Marai gives to his characters makes it hard to put the book down.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a very different style of writing than your average american novel - even than the exceedingly good ones - but fascinating  enough to keep me reading to the very last word.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[este libro lo agarré después de &quot;El último encuentro&quot;. Es bastante similar en su estructura, pero muy interesante como se desarrolla. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another excellent book from Marai, though perhaps not with quite the same claustrophobic intensity of Embers.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[about two-thirds of the way through I got bogged down in an overly detailed passage and never looked back....]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is slow to build, but there are some interesting discussions on what it means to love.  Overall, though, I could not sympathize with any of the characters, which made me feel like I kept reading more out of an obligation to finish the book rather than because I was interested in what was to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63225563">more...</a>]]></body>
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