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    <body><![CDATA[This book had a completely different feel from Cry, the Beloved Country, although the writing style was (obviously) similar. It has been likened to a modern-day Greek tragedy, with an admirable hero whose one weakness brings destruction not only on himself but upon his family; the narrator is his au...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15666695">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 08 19:07:02 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[We'll be discussing this book in my book club on Saturday, so I may have different insight into it after hearing my friends' opinions. It was very hard for me to relate to the characters and culture. Not just the extreme racial segregation but their South African patriotism, their Dutch heritage and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42363868">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Magnificent. This is a book that I bought years ago, perhaps as long as a decade ago, and never read until this past fall. What a marvellous book Paton has written. First published in 1955, the story could have taken place anytime during South African apartheid. It is the story of young police lieut...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43322305">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really great writing. Such a sad story. I liked <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6150.Cry_the_Beloved_Country" title="Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton">Cry  the Beloved Country</a> better, and this was similar enough that I'd say just stick with that one. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Passage From Book:  <br/><br/>I knew a man that counted the days, each day, everyday, tearing them off on the little block that stood on his desk.  He was always looking at his watch, and saying it’s one o’clock or it’s four o’clock or it’s nine o’clock, as though it were something for s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8091144">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this novel in an undergradate course taught by Lois Parkinson Zamora at the University of Houston. When I ran across a nice hardcover copy a few years ago, I snapped it up and re-read it: a hauntingly beautiful work.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love the way Alan Paton writes.. you have to get used to it, but it's really beautiful.  Interesting perspectives on the interplay between faith and justice.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[such a good insight into parts of SA culture - reminds me of people and places i know well.  tragic and haunting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is even better than &quot;Cry.&quot;  I can't assert enough how much people should try Alan Paton.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I believe I read this my senior year of  high school...maybe my least favorite of the texts we read that year...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Paton's best and most underrated book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the saddest books, I've read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book should be read. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great writing, good story. When comparing this to Cry The Beloved Country, it just doesn't stack up. It's hard to have empathy for the main character because he is dealing with something specifically that is out of most people's realm of possibility. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my cousin recommened and gave me the book a long time ago. Too long ago really. I finally sat down to read it when heather was stateside. I thought hte book was really good. I kinda can related with the insanity or dark side of Pieter. I mean its a part of us. Paton's exploration reminded a bit of T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35216738">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This gripping novel explores the terrible family and social consequences of choices made in a culture that is very unforgiving of intimate relationships between whites and blacks.  It also draws the reader’s compassion for the offending adulterer who unsuccessfully tries to let his wife know of hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23064853">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Too Late the Phalarope offers a devastating look into human brokenness, confession, and ultimately a failure of redemption. How many of us have secret selves? How many of us struggle to share those selves with others and fail? A painful, and beautiful book, although a bit rambling in style, this is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22186925">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thoroughly enjoyed my second Alan Paton book - the first being Cry, the Beloved Country. It is a story of inner conflict and turmoil, of weakness and sin, of misunderstanding and miscommunication, of destruction but also of love. It is set in South Africa with apartheid being the vehicle the autho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35086158">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Dutch-origin South African cop and his difficulty in managing his libido, apartheid, Brits vs. Aafrikaners, etc.  I couldn't relate to most of the characters in the book and felt the character development was just too flimsy.  Skip this and just read &quot;Cry the Beloved Country,&quot;  which is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26863263">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book, I read it about 10 years ago. It is an under-rated South African classic. I prefer it to Cry the Beloved Country and it would make a brilliant movie. Full of all the terrible South African themes, but written in a gripping page turning, yet literary style.]]></body>
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