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  <title><![CDATA[The Gods Will Have Blood (Les Dieux Ont Soif)]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting. <br/>The French Revolution is one of those things I know that I know insufficiently about. Liberty, Fraternity, etc.. and lots of bloodshed. This book sounds like a start at breaking through that.<br/><br/>Incidentally, I noticed this on Wikipedia:<br/>&quot;In the 1920s, France's w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53023803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[خدایان تشنه اند]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An intelligent, subtle, touching, insightful book about the Jacobin Terror.<br/>Gentle psychological exploration of why some men do evil and others do good.<br/>Wonderful characters, subtle evocation of the times. Very delicate prose style.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is not how i choose to imagine the french revolution.  not fun at all!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Best historical fiction account of the French Revolution.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it was a bit dry all the way through, towards the very end it picked up interest.  but for the most part I did not feel drawn into the story or the characters too much.  It seemed like the author was too caught up in sarcastic prose to present an engaging story.  It also seemed to move too spastical...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33073847">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[درونمايه اصلي قصه كزند تعصبات مرامي است قهرمان اول قصه دوست ودشمن را فداي ارمان خود مي كندو تا روزي كه خود نيز جان بر سر مبارزه مي نهد ذره اي از تعصبش كاسته نمي شود]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never would have picked this up had it not been for a class I was taking.  Not bad.  I liked the depictions it gave during the Reigh of Terror in France.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Intensely paced emotional survey of the French Revolution.  Anatole won the Noble P. P. for this and than was quickly forgotten in the shadow of Proust.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my greatest fears are:<br/>1- sharks<br/>2- being alive during the french revolution.<br/><br/>fear 2 was born of this book.]]></body>
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