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    <body><![CDATA[Before I read Bury Me Standing, I was devoted solely to fiction. My experience with non-fiction was limited to very dry histories that communicated NO sense of the people or circumstances involved. I don't know why I bought Bury Me Standing at the book shop of the Holocaust Museum in D.C., but I did...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38654296">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, it took me awhile, but I finally finished this book.  Each chapter could stand on its own which is why I kept jumping in and out of this book over the past months.  It was pretty good.  Some of the writing annoyed me at the beginning, but I can't remember specifically why since I read those ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16073299">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[really interesting book.  you learn as much about the author as the subjects, which becomes more obvious in an ethnography about a marginalized group.  <br/><br/>i picked up this book as a development economist, but the questions about the meanings of &quot;identity,&quot; &quot;history,&quot; &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2277642">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one successful random pickup at the library. I saw the cover and thought &quot;I don't really know anything about gypsies&quot; so I looked at the back and it had praise from Said, so I thought what the hell. <br/><br/>The author has this really interesting combination between personal na...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4363139">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I learned a lot about gypsies (since I knew next to nothing) this book left a great deal to be desired.  My book group wasn't happy that I chose this book for last month's book group discussion - we felt this author had an amazing topic to bring to an interested audience but just didn't del...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1509608">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Horrific, horrible, terrible. Perpetuates the WORST stereotypes of &quot;gypsies&quot; under the guise of spreading knowledge about the Roma minority. Lord save us from the friends of the colored people...  <br/><br/><em>This - above - was my original review of this book. Later I received a comment on...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9340502">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book because the Gypsy diaspora has always been interesting to me. This book is a classic and If you have ever wondered about their history, language and  theories of origin this is the book. There is one chapter titled The Devouring which talks about how they were tortured and kill...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39655244">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I should have read this book three years ago. The information would have enriched my experiences with the Romanian Gypsies by untold amounts. As it stands,it has helped to explain a lot of behavior I experienced first hand.<br/>This is a scholarly treatment, but it is readable if you have motivatio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41482825">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[love love LOVE the personal, yet journalistic style of this book that lets light into the lives and histories of the Roma -- a group of people I knew almost nothing about. i only bought this book because i kept on seeing it on the &quot;popular non-fiction reads&quot; display at barnes &amp; nobel and i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58795171">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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