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    <body><![CDATA[This book must be removed from high school syllabi immediately, and become the reserve only of those who can truly appreciate it. No teenager has ever been capable of grasping the infinite layers of brilliance in these poems, and it is doing the work a disservice to dessimate it into Cliff's Notes. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14026981">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What can I say?  I suppose I felt guilty giving &quot;Paradise Lost&quot; anything less than four stars!  I'm certainly no serious judge of poetry, epic or other, but I'd never read Milton and felt it was time.  It's amazing what you learn about a piece of literature without ever having read it.  So...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24265045">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Been meaning to read this in its entirety for a couple of years, and have finally done it.  Wish I had done it sooner.  Have to agree with the poet Shelley that &quot;the Devil owes everything to Milton.&quot;  Milton makes him the most interesting character, although in my reading - contra Harold B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41372489">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I know this is one of the great classics of all time, but I have never been able to get over the portrayal of Eve. Honestly, the first time I read it (granted, I was way young, maybe a freshman in high school or before), I thought God made Eve mentally challenged because she was so incredibly stupid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54646927">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I abuse goodreads terribly.  Rather than contributing to the community with excellent book reviews, I use is as a place for organizing my thoughts while I read.  There is a lot that I think about as I read Paradise Lost. I mean it's well done of course, who an I to contend with that.  But it falls s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68044063">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book in class 9 in school, but let it languish on my bookshelf for more than a decade! Finally, I think I am able to make space for a sustained read. <br/><br/>The poem portrays the human predicament, vis-a-vis man and god and the question of faith in a medieval christian context. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1739554">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A masterful piece of literature.  It purports to be in the same poetic style as Homer and Virgil, and it doesn't dissapoint.  The first part is the story of the War in Heaven, Lucifer cast out, the creation, the Garden of Eden,and the fall of Adam.  The second part, much shorter and simpler, is the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30359432">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Eh, maybe I wasn't in the mood to read this or maybe I continue to not really like British authors but I found myself bored with this. I enjoy poetry and I enjoy stories but epic poems that tell stories don't really do it for me.<br/><br/>I'm glad I read it because it's a classic and all but it wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46864732">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What an imagination has Milton... I read this for class, but it soon became an obsession. This is an awesome read for those that may (or may not) question their religious beliefs. This may challenge you to think outside of yourself.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not for the faint of heart. If you don't like reading epic poems written in iambic pentameter, stay away. (I don't even really like it, but I had to read it for a class.)<br/><br/>So, since I had to read it, I would say I liked it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm having trouble getting through it.  I can't decide if the issue is with Milton's language or with the incessant footnotes commenting on his language.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Milton expressed the events of the bible so seamlessly that I sometimes confuse the biblical depiction and Milton's story.  ]]></body>
    
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