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    <body><![CDATA[I have abot 20 pages to go and I'm looking forward to moving on to something more authentic, even if it's not as exquisitely well written as Athena, I don't care. There are so many echoes of Nabokov in Athena I can barely hear Banville at times, though Nabokov rarely if ever got as explicit in his n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22240803">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book. I love this book so much. John Banville is a much under appreciated author, i think. read him. its delicious! ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is for me Banville's most difficult work.  At one level there is the style and the book itself, which extends his love of deception – it seems to be the third part after the Book of Evidence and Ghosts, but this is never fully revealed.  It's also difficult in that after you work through it d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48084238">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this after reading The Sea, which I thought was one of the most beautifully written books I've come across. Banville is an extraordinarily poetic author; he employs unexpected, uncommon, but perfectly chosen words as one would apply just the right amount of paint to a canvas. This is true of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2107845">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It’s not quite “The Sea,” but Banville really is a writer closer to Nabakov and Joyce than most of his contemporaries. It’s easy to see in this novel of obsession, which follows a former felon turned art historian asked to verify the authenticity of a stack of suspicious paintings. Things ge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4550061">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the last novel in a trilogy that includes Book of Evidence and Ghosts.  I'm now, I guess, an official Banville fan; I'm captivated by his style.  But Athena was disappointing.  Though full of the felicities one can expect from Banville's writing, the protagonist, Freddie (now calling himself...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64104958">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Can't wait to start this one!<br/>I am hooked by the very first lines:<br/>&quot;My love.  If words can reach whatever world you may be suffering in, then listen. I have things to tell you.&quot;<br/>. . .<br/>Now finished, and oh the story he told her!  Wonderful reading. Enjoyed every page.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[From the internationally acclaimed author of The Book of Evidence and Ghosts comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita. &quot;A strange and dreamlike book . . . Banville has a breathtaking style.&quot;--Boston Globe.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[My 5 star rating still goes, although I would have liked a bit more resolution to Freddie's story after this, the third Freddie installment, but that's ok, the echoes of Humbert were enough for me.  ]]></body>
    
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