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  <default_description>This powerful, autobiographical novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author made literary history when it was first published in 1890. A modern classic about a penniless, unemployed young writer, the book paints an unforgettable portrait of a man driven to the edge of self-destruction by forces beyond his control.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Knut Hamsun]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wiser man than me (read: Chris Rock) once said, &quot;If a homeless person has a funny sign, he hasn't been homeless that long. A real homeless person is too hungry to be funny.&quot; But what happens when you've just become homeless, when you tell yourself you'll spend just one or two nights outs...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4470189">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Started reading the original Norwegian edition today. I'm fluent in Swedish but don't really know Norwegian, though I have read maybe half a dozen Norwegian books. Comparing with English, it's rather like reading something in broad Scots dialect that's been written down phonetically. Iain Banks fans...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44212512">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I've seen this novel referred to as the beginning of modernism, and it makes sense. Free from conventional plot, characters, or message, Knut Hamsun's nihilistic odyssey dwells entirely in its incrementally starving writer-narrator's head as he gets hung up on random details of his surroundi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36539109">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34786407">
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 07 20:53:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hunger is a remarkable first-person account of a poor writer in Oslo who is starving. Knut Hamsun was able to paint a vivid and breathtaking portrait of the psychology of nihilism and self-contempt in this novel, a work for which he will always be remembered. It was obvious to me upon reading this t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34786407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8416196">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 29 20:14:10 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is exactly the kind of book I usually can't enjoy enough to finish: a heavily stylistic 19th century novel in which nothing ever happens. Despite that, I enjoyed it quite a bit. A great part of the appeal is Hamsun's detailed, minute by minute account of what it's like to be at the absolute end...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8416196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43410144">
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    <body><![CDATA[Hunger is a startling narrative told by a young journalist who is literally starving throughout the novel.  Hamsun's technique, achieved in this first novel of his published in 1888, is to present a first person narrative that demonstrates a man subject to delusions and psychological stress that alm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43410144">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40537276">
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    <body><![CDATA[The disdain felt for ordinary society and the individuals that compose it is a thread that runs through modernism, and I've never especially liked it.  It's as if the desire to experiment with form requires a certain amount of contempt for the rules you're violating.  Contempt for society, morality,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40537276">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73461647">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It wasn’t until my second attempt that I managed to finish this book, which probably says a lot, considering it’s a mere 134 pages long.  On my first, aborted reading of <u>Hunger</u>, I got about ten pages in before chucking it aside; I just wasn’t in the mood for another ‘tortured-artist-sufferin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73461647">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38550454">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm writing about a book called &quot;Hunger&quot; on the eve of Thanksgiving. One of my favorite &quot;tortured souls&quot; recommended this book to me so I did have some idea what I was getting into with this one but at the same time it's also quite the page-turner. To really glimpse into the inne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38550454">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66216714">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Hm. Hunger was interesting. I'm glad I read it for that if nothing else. I'm not sure I can say that I liked it because that would mean I would probably want to read it again, which I don't, I don't think anyway...<br/><br/> Alright, so Hunger is uniquely written and I'll give it points for that....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66216714">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17052858">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mike]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Jose, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hunger is one of the few books I've read in the last few years that really made me feel vulnerable (Journey to the End of the Night being the other), and that by itself impressed me greatly. It's tremendously modern for a book written in 1890...reads like a mixture of Kafka and Celine (and preceeds ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17052858">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68660096">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an existentialist sort of novel about a starving writer who struggles to maintain his dignity and sanity in the face of extreme poverty.  The reader follows the novel's anonymous narrator, whose fragile state of mind is easily agitated and prone to bouts of blaspheming, as he makes his way a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68660096">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm considering writing a much longer review at some stage, so consider this a placeholder, but this is one of my all-time favorite books, from once upon a time my all-time favorite author. <br/><br/>I went through a period in the latter years of college reading a lot of Scandinavian bigs (Ibsen, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76076307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[“Carried away by rage, I shouted and roared threats up to the sky, shrieked God’s name hoarsely and savagely, and curled my fingers like claws… ‘I’ll tell you this, you sacred Baal in the sky, you do not exist, and if you do, I’ll curse you so that your heaven will start shuddering with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41819651">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40512581">
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    <name><![CDATA[Rómulo]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hemingway decía: “La sensación de tristeza es mayor al describir un charco en el que se refleja la luna que el decir que una persona está triste”<br/>El personaje de hambre se excede al hablar de sus estados de ánimo, más bien de su único y regular estado de ánimo. Me atendré de citar e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40512581">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24619067">
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    <body><![CDATA[رمان خيلي قشنگيه<br/>به همه رمان دوستان پيشنهاد مي كنم بخوننش]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all time favorites. A classic. The only Hamsun I've read, but its a doozy. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the story of a young author who struggles to find enough to eat and keep a roof over his head and he becomes more destitute, ending up homeless and starving.<br/>As he becomes more hungry, his ability to write coherent thoughts becomes more and more difficult. He becomes not only hungry but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69623716">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is straight up from the Brian West collection, so you know it's going to be good. And it is.  I had the experience reading it that I did with Camus' The Stranger.  Simple but powerful, this book is more than a study of poverty and self-deterioration. It's about a man so determined to appear tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64361498">more...</a>]]></body>
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