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    <body><![CDATA[An enjoyable enough book with a quirky way of both presenting the story (through some unidentified narrator) and telling the story (shifting back and forth between what G (the protagonist) is thinking and what the narrator is observing).  It is set in pre-World War I Europe and is the story of a ser...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3044368">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of the easier Booker prize winners to read, despite (or maybe because of) its disjointed style.  The protagonist is interesting but I almost feel like the author connects the reader to him much better when he is a child than when he is an adult.  There are interesting statements made on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71693668">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's really been too long since I've read this one...it's complicated, rich in terms of texture, and it's ideas in terms of the exploration of relationships, even feminism, are the most forefront in my mind as I recall it.  However, it's a complex book deserving of more of a description and I have r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67691927">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished this book and already I'm dying to read it again.  <br/><br/>I think it's best enjoyed in small doses.  In any number of places he lulls you to sleep with some pretty boring text, then he gets 'inspired' or something and begins to rattle off some of the most beautifully worded and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45534256">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A truly weird book. Combines the history of the late 19th and early 20th century - specifically, Italy and the Balkans, and the working class and nationalist politics that would help lead to the War - with one man's sexual conquests, not to mention numerous philosophical asides by Berger on topics r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4487836">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a very challenging book.  I'm still not sure who the narrator of the story was.  a bit philosophical -- about everything from the protagonist's amorous ways to the writing process itself (which featured throughout the novel).  I feel like there was more I could have gleaned from it, but even still, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8392134">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had never heard of this book, or its author.  One day I saw it lying out on a stoop (no I didn't steal it - that is the book exchange of Brooklyn), and since I was looking at a long subway ride I picked it up.  Ah the game of chance can be so fun when you win.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[you can have it.  it's dumb.  i hated it.  what the hell?  and the guy won the booker prize?  did it just go directly over my head&gt; maybe.  it's still a bad book.  on to bigger and better ones.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was so slow moving and hard to understand that I quit reading it. I held on longer than I should...probably a third of the way....and I never figured out who or what &quot;G&quot; was!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nobody that I know who has read this book enjoyed it but funnily I really liked it. It wasn't a page turner by any means but I felt it contained something special.]]></body>
    
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