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  <read_at>Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[¿Una novela histórica escrita el siglo XVII ambientada en la corte francesa del siglo XVI? Créedme, ante esta premisa yo era más escéptica que nadie. El elogio de &quot;la primera novela moderna&quot; es un elogio que pesa como una losa. La empecé más por curiosidad intelectual que por un ver...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37332962">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard to say what I thought about this book. At first it was incredibly bewildering, what with all of the various names and titles flying about, but once this first part once out of the way I started to enjoy it.<br/><br/>However, by the books end I had found it frustrating and deeply unsatisfying....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44633341">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first half is <em>rough</em> going--every sentence seems to namedrop at least two members of the French aristocracy, and it is impossible to keep track of who is being mentioned for the first time, and who has already been referred to six lines back.  But there comes a point where the narrative suddenly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71782435">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14379112">
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  <date_added>Sat Feb 02 12:43:33 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is quite possibly the saddest, yet most true, &quot;love story&quot; every written.  While the book is steeped in 16th century history (and written in the 17th century), some of the tragic realities of love, the inevitable fading of passion, and the complexity of relationships are just as relev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14379112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19560323">
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  <date_added>Sat Apr 05 22:02:05 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read an abridged version of this in a World literature class and remembered liking it. A few weeks ago I decided to read it again, and enjoyed it again. When you finish reading it you ask yourself, is that how it should have ended? And then you continue thinking about the book. That's what a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19560323">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1363508">
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    <body><![CDATA[Although an elementary novel by today's standards, it was the first of its kind. Never before had the reader been privy to internal thoughts the way Lafayette made them in Princesse de Cleves. It's a fairly typical french novel otherwise, except that the heroine does not commit suicide in the end. T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1363508">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34988457">
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not think I'd like this novel.  Fifteenth century French lit isn't exactly my top choice of reading material, but I loved the intricacy of the story, the attention to detail, and how relevant the plot is to today's woman struggling to balance duty and personal identity.]]></body>
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    <review id="76656253">
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    <body><![CDATA[Lafayette did amazing things here, I have to say. But it remains difficult for me to divorce myself from my contemporary cultural context in order to fully appreciate the story. It's also so insular and isolated from the rest of French society that I can see exactly how the French Revolution would i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76656253">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28853406">
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 31 04:42:05 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 03 08:35:50 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the iconic lines of this novel-&quot;les passions peuvent me conduire, mais elles ne sauraient m'aveugler&quot; (roughly:  my sensibility might control my actions, but I can't claim to be ignorant of that fact)--describes, to me, the essence of this novel:  the struggle between emotional (and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28853406">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9580272">
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 26 18:10:27 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I read this book in my European Humanities class, I was told it was not only the first romance novel, but that it was essentially the first modern novel. The first (commercially successful?) conscious attempt by an author to write a fictional narrative based on character drama, wherein all the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9580272">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55507276">
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  <date_added>Sat May 09 14:57:00 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is such a great lovestory, but that is not the only reason to read this book. It's important to the history of the novel because of its form. It's the first psychological novel in the West, and marks the birth of the novel in Western culture. (That is, the novel as we recognize it today.) There...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55507276">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41413007">
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    <body><![CDATA[Who could forget crazy old Dr. Clark's English class with this novel? Probably a landmark work in French prose, but I think that escaped me when I was a teenager. Too bad I couldn't read it in the original. The movie of this novel did not elucidate too much for me (especially since it was in French ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41413007">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3794406">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was written in the mid-seventeenth century, so I shouldn’t have expected much from it. Nevertheless, the stilted, utterly artificial dialog, the smothering moral tone, and the rampant historical inaccuracies were even worse than I’d thought. By the end of the first chapter, I gave in and lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3794406">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39766885">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was relatively easy to read for one written in 1678, and at only 200 pages it was possible to read in merely a couple of days.  However, I most certainly did not enjoy this novel.  It centres around the affairs of the French court in the 16th century, paying close attention to the love-liv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39766885">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44036490">
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    <body><![CDATA[What to say...the beginning of this book (titled Book 1) is akin to genesis with all the begats! There are so many names and explanations of rank that it's really hard to keep track, especially as some characters have up to three alternative names. Following these lengthy introductions is Book 2 whi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44036490">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40863783">
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm being unfair to this book because I docked it stars due to its difficult language (literally- I read it in the medieval French that LaFayette wrote it in).  The story, however, is engaging and provides much food for thought.]]></body>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[its plot outline and my own sorry state]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1968</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jul 11 03:31:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this 40 years ago when I was young and in love.(Ouch!!)<br/>When the Duc de Nemours steals the little portrait of his unrequited passion, I got a jolt for I had snitched a photograph of my amour!!<br/>So I found that Time just melted away.<br/>Human nature doesn't change...just some ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32987088">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 11 15:39:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 11 15:44:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was very hard to keep all the members of the court straight with all their names and titles.  If they had been shortened to Tom, Bob and Charles (while not very romantic), I would have enjoyed the action much more.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 27 18:49:33 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 27 18:51:13 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[A little confusing at first for me because of all the names and keeping up with French/English/Spanish royal courts of the 17th century.  It did surprise me interested and keep me questioning the time.]]></body>
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    <review id="57335366">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lori]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon May 25 22:53:34 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 25 22:54:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[The only time in my life I have thrown down a book in utter disgust upon finishing it (and if it hadn't been required reading, I wouldn't have bothered to read to the end). Boo.]]></body>
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