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  <title><![CDATA[The Drinker]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Hans Fallada]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Of course I have not always been a drunkard.&quot; begins this haunting masterpiece, which throughout the course probes the deepest reserves of human emotion. Fallada's prose is crystal clear and unmistakably real. While this terrifying novel struck many chords with me, as one who loves occasi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74072149">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64467418">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I almost quit reading this book after 100 pages I got really bored. I owe my finishing of this book to <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1065583.Pod_Mocnym_Anio_em" title="Pod Mocnym Aniołem by Jerzy Pilch">The Mighty Angel</a> I don't honestly know if this book should be getting 3 or 4 stars, I feel a bit bad giving it 4. I think the book doesn't feel like it comes from a person and I think in context th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64467418">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 01 06:13:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Erwin Sommer - a suitable name for the weakling narrator. His demise into alcoholism runs a circuitous course of denial and failure, he is always up against the odds and yet so close to snapping out of his habit that we wonder what is the reason for his predisposition to the devil's firewater.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51127893">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 30 17:22:56 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, friends, believe it or not I've been experimenting with infrequent sobriety. And this book, well. It literally made me ill with not only the potential savage madness of alcohol, but of love, despair, aloneness, and other general insanity. And I mean all of this in a WONDERFUL, though BRUISING ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76254135">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[They will steal this book from your shelf.<br/>	<br/>It is a hard-to-find book; even special ordered and second-hand.  But that is not why They will steal it and that is not why you will be pissed at seeing it gone.  Pissed because you are a drunkard and it is the most beautiful book written by/ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22191242">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 28 05:03:45 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book I've read by this author.  What a writer he was, though he had a tragic life, including alcoholism and time spent in mental institutions -- plus some unpleasantness with nazis (understatement).  I couldn't put this book down -- the protagonist was so compelling in his self-de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75910754">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Without knowing a lick of German, I can't compare this translation to the original. But its simple, direct prose suited the desperation and crumbling vanity of Fallada's Herr Sommer, a character whose intelligence and self-awareness only intensify his shortcomings. A class that gathered The Drinker,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68584536">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A first person account of what it is like to be an alcoholic. The author went through simular problems with morphine and other addictions. Set in Germany between the wars. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny, very sad, a little slow (overly naturalistic?) in parts, often reads like a book written pretty quickly, with a sense of urgency, which it evidently was. The ending is pretty amazing, prose-wise, as if the writer summoned up all his writerly strength for a final fists-of-fury explosion on the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47805387">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the way he writes. Very Kafka-esque. More interesting is the author's life and the story behind his pseudonym. going to read his other books as well.]]></body>
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    <review id="63191518">
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book rocks!]]></body>
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    <review id="36837905">
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    <body><![CDATA[Headlong tale of alcoholism and the inexorable degradation it entails. Spare prose, but not simply a sodden sob-story; this is a book about Germany as well as about booze.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For some reason, I really loved this book.  It's an autobiographical novel of Hans Fallada.  He apparently was a wild guy.]]></body>
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