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    <body><![CDATA[Such an interesting concept for a book, yet it was SO BORING!  I loved the first 20 pages, and then, POOF, it was gone.  I was all like, &quot;Dude, where did you go?  I thought we were cool!&quot; And the book was all like, &quot;Sorry dude, I gotta be me.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Saramago, Jose.  THE STONE RAFT.  (1986; Eng. trans. pub. 1995).  ****.  This is a strange, but fascinating book.  It’s a marvelous play on a “what-if” theme.  The Iberian Peninsula breaks away from the European continent along the chain of the Pyrenees.  Why?  No real reason can be ascribed t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38942197">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago<br/>New York:  Harcourt Brace and Company<br/>$23.00 – 292 pages<br/><br/>     If you remember those wonderful fairy tales in which the hero acquires the aid of “helpers” in their journey to acquire some prize – usually, three or four creatures with remark...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63012699">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i have decided that besides the book Blindness...I think that i hate Jose Saramago.  <br/><br/>I read this book on a cross country flight. I felt like I was stuck with no place to run...and so I was tortured to finish this novel.  <br/><br/>Perhaps something is lost in the translation of these n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57347726">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ممتعة!<br/>اعجبتني واقعية ساراماجو السحرية، وسرده الذي يأخذك إلى عالم من الأفكار التفصيلية التي تبدو لاول وهلة استطراد وفلسفة لا لزوم لهما وسرد لتفاصيل غير هامة، لكن...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53319321">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[...now, i picked this book randomly as i wandered aimlessly in the labyrinth that is my university's library and as i read the first paragraph i thought, oh no..not the writer is the storyteller point of view as i always think it rather gives an aura of pomposity, which i have to say does not necess...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50385987">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Iberian peninsula drifts away from the Europian continent, threatening to collide with the Azores and then with North America. The premise is great and the reactions of governments and residents are so accurate. The story line of the 5 (or 6 counting the dog) main characters gets a bit bogged do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77053937">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Saramago's lyricism as is usual, but his digressions left me distracted and frankly, a little bored.  I worked through because I was expecting a payoff... and while parts are very moving, at the end, I wish an editor had cut about 150 pages.  The best parts of the story focus on the main char...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75490619">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The premise of the story is what initially drew me to the book. While Saramago narrates a very creative and original tale his forays into philosophical questions and social commentaries were bothersome as they appeared to compete with the plot development rather than enhance it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed reading this and liked the characters but didn't feel that the story arc took me somewhere.  I think the Cave and Blindness were much more complete in that way.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilhante alegoria sobre a Península Ibérica, sua cultura, sua história. Não menos emocionante é a história pessoal das personagens que protagoniam a obra. Lindo.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Much has been said about the Stone Raft, about the person that threw the heaviest of rocks across the ocean, and the woman that drawing a line across managed to break the Pyrenees. Reading the initial chapters I wonder if in a situation like that I would finally get my x-ray vision…<br/><br/>Thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16148002">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Saramago book, and after I got used to his writing style, I was hooked.  He is probably my fave author now.  <br/><br/>The premise of this book is that the Iberian peninsula breaks away from Europe and floats adrift on the ocean.  A handful of strangers find themselves entwined o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8228111">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this novel has an outlandish premise, as do many of saramago's works; i've gotten used to this characteristic of his. it's not just about getting used to saramago, either; for me, it's about learning to see the ease with which his near-impossible fictional situations approach possible and actual rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6010834">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this was just not for me, by the end I just wanted to finish it so i could start something else]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully written - like dialogue or learning a new language]]></body>
    
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