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    <body><![CDATA[Ugh! I did not like this book. I am a huge Forster fan and this book irked me but probably because I am a woman. The book centers around how women are basically corrupt, evil and base representing nature. Men are represented as intellect. I think it also bothered me as it is one of his most autobiog...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63331270">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Forster. This novel is not as tidy as his others, but I liked it nonetheless. The ideas seemed to have more passion behind them, even if they weren't brought together with the same clarity as in the other books. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Rambling and lacks a sense of urgency.  I felt that Forster was writing, struck upon an idea (Hey--I'll send them to Aunt's house!), and stuck the idea in the book.  There is absolutely nothing wrong with that--that's how writing goes, after all.  But then there is the rewriting, when ideas are intr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10598363">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[طولانی ترین سفر، دومین اثر از آثار چاپ شده ی فاوستر است (1922) که از روانی زبان و زیبایی روایت برخوردار است. در تعجبم که بسیاری از آثار فاوستر از جمله همین اثر چرا به فارس...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50749">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't find this particularly engrossing. It might be that it didn't meet my expectations of this favorite genre of mine or that I didn't get into his style of writing.  It was a good story. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Since I'm not British I think I miss alot when I read E. M. Forster. If I could read this book in a classroom setting I'd get more out of it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[light reading. manners of the social class. the story is interestingly worked out, though. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[E.M. Forster is one of my favorite authors but this is probably my least favorite of his books.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Even mediocre Forster is better than most's best.]]></body>
    
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