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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone who wishes to write fiction should read this book but prepared to be disappointed - in your own abilities in comparison with de Bernieres, who has swiftly become one of my favorite English writers. His style, plot, humor and candor make him irresistible, as does his subject matter, in this ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10682928">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. Stupendous. Magnificent. This ranks right up there with Garcia Marquez and Allende. Glorious Latin American magical realism. So wonderful to read every step of the way. Brilliant, insightful, incisive, sly. And every character so fully drawn--I could pick each one out in a crowd. To write like ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54128941">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess the comparisons to Gabriel Garcia Marquez are inevitable, but come on, you could do much worse than be compared to THAT icon.  And tho I absolutely adore Garcia Marquez, de Bernieres is more accessible and injects more humor in his amazing creations.  If I could exist in any fictional world ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25816348">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This ripping good read is almost too perfect: written by a no doubt crotchety Englishman, this farce is a distillation of Latin American magical realism, with a plethora of outlandish stories all boiled down into sparkling and colorful set-pieces set loose to writhe on a sultry chessboard of human m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70414348">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the type of book I relish: epic, with plenty POVs and, therefore, characters, satirical, tragicomic. How can somebody possibly populate this South American Question Mark of a Town? de Bernieres is on the same line as Tolkien and John Kennedy Toole- the characters are fleshy and complicated. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49680220">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book. The descriptions are incredibly vivid and wonderfully ironic. This is a wonderful piece of magical satire in the manner of Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. If you loved that book you should definitely read this one.<br/><br/>My only criticisms are the way the author bounced aroun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39749464">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In the 80's, there was a fun independent board game that we would sometimes play called <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junta_(game)">Junta</a>. You played a corrupt power elite family member who gets assigned a stereotypical role (General, guerrilla leader, etc.) in an anonymous banana republic. For all its light-hearted fun of its subject, the un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30864139">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The War of Don Emmanuel's... is about the political, economic, sexual, and humorous interactions in some unnamed Latin American country.  It starts off with a war over water where the local rich lady decides to divert the local river to fill her pool with it.  I have been carrying the book around fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30283583">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[To anyone who has read Captain Corelli's Mandolin, the style of Louis de Berniers will be instantly recognisable. An infinitely funny story interspersed with amusing, frightening and sometimes horrifying side stories and anecdotes.<br/><br/>In this book (and two further books &quot;The Troublesome...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25464727">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first in a trilogy, I was completely taken in by the humor in this book about a made up Latin American country where the government is clueless or corrupt, crime gangs run everything but not necessarily very well, the women, esp those in whore houses, are kind, and somehow even though everything...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47928213">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love de Bernieres writing style and witty, cathartic tales.  Loved <u>Captain Corelli's </u>but only like this one.  Story focuses on a mixed bag of people in an immaginary south American country - like Corelli's it was a great way to learn about another culture that I have no background in.  I loved havin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56736167">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love everything I have read by de Bernières so far.  Anyone with an interest in Latin America should ready this book.  Although the subject matter is grim, it is written in de Bernières's poetically beautiful prose that takes you somewhere magical.  The atmosphere of the book is mystical like <em>10...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38316473">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Gave up on this after the first 30 pages or so. I had to re-read lots of sections as so many characters were introduced with crazy amounts of detail about their lives that it was impossible (for me at least) to keep them all straight. This made it quickly become irritating - I have so little time to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78741209">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This one came highly recommended, and I do admire the author's inventiveness and prose style. However, this one just never connected for me. It started feeling like low-grade Marquez. I quit about 200 pages in, after a truly galling little chapter that I won't spoil for anyone reading this.]]></body>
    
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