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  <title><![CDATA[Der Verschollene]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Franz Kafka]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[angst-ridden hipsters who aren't worth the trouble to punch]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[my husband... THANKS!]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 02 20:06:30 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 09 20:14:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Life is too short.  Don't walk - RUN - away from this book.  Masochist that I am, I got more than two-thirds through the book and finally could not stand it anymore.  Amerika is about this 16 year old boy named Karl who gets exiled to America by his German parents after impregnating a household serv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31873700">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49567923">
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 17 11:00:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 17 11:17:27 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Much like the protagonist in Roth's recent Indignation, one can't help but sympathize with and occasionally relate to Kafka's young tragic hero Carl, who, despite his efforts and good intentions is misread, slandered, and otherwise abused and molested while trying to make his way up in the world--he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49567923">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57164720">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stephen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun May 24 12:13:25 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 24 12:57:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As E.L. Doctorow says in a very perceptive introduction to this volume, &quot;Kafka would always have difficulty with the longer form of the novel&quot; (xix).  This difficulty is in evidence here.  I am a great fan of both Kafka's &quot;The Castle&quot; and &quot;The Trial,&quot; wherein the sheer ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57164720">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65834238">
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    <name><![CDATA[seisyll]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 01 21:55:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 06 09:25:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Just as Karl, coming last, quietly took his seat several of them were rising with upraised glasses, and one of them toasted the leader of the tenth recruiting squad, whom he called the “father of all the unemployed.” Someone then remarked that the leader could be seen from here, and actually the...</p></blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65834238">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47035438">
    <user id="24698">
    <name><![CDATA[Eric]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 21 05:58:15 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 21 06:09:54 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Odd and uneven, as an unfinished novel should be, I suppose.  Still puzzling over whether Kafka thought there was bridge from NY to Boston, whether it's a simple error, or if he were making some sort of surreal point about what's possible in Amerika.  Some of the passages are stunningly clear and ee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47035438">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59220177">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jason Williams]]></name>
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 10 19:11:56 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 10 17:16:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can only recommend this book to people who consider themselves Kafka fans.  It's like . . . if you really love Seinfeld, then you're willing to watch the first episodes that aren't nearly as funny or sharp.<br/><br/>To be fair, Kafka never intended for Amerika to be published, at least not as is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59220177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17850024">
    <user id="400778">
    <name><![CDATA[Núria]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 16 05:09:46 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 16 05:10:51 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yo quiero a mi Franz más oscuro y pesimista, gracias. Esta novela se me antoja (en comparación) como demasiado convencional, poco kafkiana.]]></body>
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    <review id="41101823">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 28 12:42:41 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 07 10:10:48 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's kind of lazy, in my opinion, when people use the term Kafka-esque to describe any 20th or 21st century fiction that is a bit absurd and paranoiac, but I'm sure those same people would cry that it is a tribute to the awkward Czech writer's ubiquitous influence.  I wonder what those people would ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41101823">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34638424">
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 06 05:50:25 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 17 04:48:23 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[To be fair, it was published unfinished and posthumously against Kafka's wishes, which I think is one of the most bullshit things friends of writers can possibly do. Just because your friend who was an awesome writer died doesn't mean you can go rifling through all their personal unpolished musings ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34638424">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27154440">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jimmy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 13 17:23:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 16 05:46:05 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I disagree with Max Brod's afterword claiming that this is Kafka's lightest most optimistic and funny book.  Though its subject matter is bleak, The Trial is funnier and lighter in tone overall.  Amerika, perhaps because it's less &quot;doomed from the start&quot;, offers a glimmer of hope throughou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27154440">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22433783">
    <user id="980475">
    <name><![CDATA[Matthew]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[El Monte, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Kafka worshipers, repulicans, hotel workers, and the Irish]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[max brod]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat May 17 10:25:06 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 28 22:42:45 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In many ways Amerika, and its protagonist Karl, remind me of some sort of Horatio Alger tale gone terribly awry. Sent to America, Karl finds himself always striving to do the correct thing, though time and again finds himself at odds with those around him, who are usually the closest to him, and oft...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22433783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18320301">
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    <location><![CDATA[Amelia, OH]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 21 14:14:08 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 21 14:41:36 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;kafka is in ecstasy, writes whole nights through. a novel, set in america.&quot; -max brod in his diary, september 29, 1912.<br/><br/>this is overlooked. franz kafka is a great comic writer. often there's an immediate humor and a more subtle humor, a humor of existence. it's kind of slow at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18320301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13259769">
    <user id="177222">
    <name><![CDATA[Margaret]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Gainesville, FL]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people that want to read the unfinished works of Kafka]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Arthur Phillips, by way of an interview]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 23 07:30:58 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 16 16:31:28 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't wait to read a Kafka work that is supposedly from a complete manuscript.  <br/><br/>This is what Arthur Phillips said in an interview that made me want to read this book:<br/>Robert Birnbaum: Kafka did come to America?<br/>AP: No he only wrote a book about it. A wonderful piece of nonsen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13259769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6131815">
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  <date_added>Wed Sep 12 22:38:15 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 12 22:54:09 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[my first stab at Kafka's novels.  This unfinished work is delightful and showcases Kafka's indebtedness to the sense of humor found in silent films that tackle the issue of class disparity -- namely those of Chaplin.  When not read with this sense of humor in mind, which I'm sure can be done if one ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6131815">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[someone who is safe at home.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jun 09 11:00:01 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading Amerika on an airplane to Caracas, Venezuela.  At first I felt strange to be reading a book  named after America on my way out of it, and I a little nervous about looking like the type of American who flaunts it while I was <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road" title="The Road by Cormac McCarthy">on the road</a> and trying to be invisible in a place where th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1430723">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1127728">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed May 09 13:33:51 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Up until now I’d been familiar with Kafka as a concept. The term “Kafkaesque” appears in dictionaries as meaning dreamlike and surreal. Although I’d seen a stage adaptation of Metamorphosis, Amerika is the first of his works I’ve read. And it’s often critiqued as the worst…so maybe thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1127728">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book led me to become so frustrated that I felt like banging my head against the wall on several occasions and screaming at some of the characters. It's a pity that it was never finished, and that the linking drafts up to the last chapter aren't included in some form. Nevertheless, exceptionall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40945868">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kafka wrote this without ever setting foot in America, and that might be the best part about it. The sixteen year-old Karl finds himself pin-balling between rogues, benefactors, devils and angels. Oh yeah, and an enormous snorting opera singer who takes off her clothes all the time. The book was unf...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67091764">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While Amerika is certainly a Kafka novel, its overall plot is very different from his other novels The Trial and The Castle.  Here, the protagonist Karl is not struggling against an amoral bureaucratic machine, but bouncing his way through a surreal American landscape reliving variations of the fami...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7999568">more...</a>]]></body>
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