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  <title><![CDATA[Orient Express (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1932</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Orient Express follows five or six characters and exposes them psychologically as they travel along the famed Orient Express train line.  In a thumbnail the characters are a Jewish businessman, an exiled communist leader, a lesbian newspaper reporter, A German criminal, and a plain, working-class da...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41549661">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jan 17 12:38:33 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Greene's prose is dense and full of lively detail--he populates this book with interesting characters that will keep your attention.  But while his insights into characters are deep, they tend to be negative, with stereotypes and cynicism intertwined.  It is difficult to tolerate some of Greene's de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43372922">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Dec 30 06:45:19 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I had read this on a train.  Give it to your favorite young backpacker who wants to imagine everyone on the Eurorail murdering, plotting communist revolutions, or sleeping with each other. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A big fan of Graham Greene since I read Brighton rock as a teenager, I am also fascinated by the Orient Express train journey which takes 3 days across Europe.  Passengers are just embarking after a bad channel ferry crossing from England.  So far the prose is wonderfully concise but also film like ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51444406">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Orient Express,&quot; properly known as &quot;Stamboul Train,&quot; is a short book that can easily be read in an evening or two. Graham Greene wrote this book intending it to be taken as entertainment, as opposed to his more serious works or literature, but it nevertheless discusses serious t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17048517">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 06 19:22:21 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 06 19:47:13 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Published in 1937, this book is interesting not only as part of the on-going dialogue Green has with Christianity, but also because it was written very close to the beginning of World War II.  The story works on two levels.  On the narrative level it is an encounter among four people: Coral (a young...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37082032">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though morality in politic is not popular any more, but these is what I like in Greene’s.<br/><br/>گراهام گرین هم یکی دیگر از نویسندگانی ست (مانند میلان کوندرا در این سال ها!) که به گمان من در زبان فارسی گرفتار...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recently, everywhere I go I hear something or read something about how great Graham Greene is or comparing some new talent to the talent of Graham Greene. Where have I been? Why have I never heard of him? Now I am rectifying that.]]></body>
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    <review id="48675324">
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't bring myself to care about any of these characters by the halfway point of this novel.  Also, I thought it was The Murder on the Orient Express, so imagine my disappointment when no one died.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty so-so all the way through and then a very solid ending.  Interestingly, the intro says that this is the only Greene book written with the plan that it be turned into a movie.]]></body>
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    <review id="78782023">
    <user id="42933">
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Graham Greene, so of course it is well written, but I didn't like it as much as I liked some of his other works.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[They really need to let us put in 1/2 stars.  Anyway, not quite finished but wanted to get some thoughts down before they escaped my muddled brain. <br/><br/>Wow, was not expecting all the sterotypes portrayed in this novel.  The rich Jew, the desperate, man-hating drunken butch lesbian(who seems ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12167209">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66525159">
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    <body><![CDATA[Au rythme d'un train international, enfermés dans leur compartiment pendant trois jours, des voyageurs réunis par le hasard s'affrontent et se déchirent.<br/><br/>Un monde se crée et se défait.<br/><br/>C'est un grand roman d'aventure que soutient une intrique passionnante et à travers laq...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66525159">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 15 07:52:05 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think that this is Greene's strongest work - he even admitted it at the time that he wrote it.  Primarily it was written so that it could be made into a movie and earn him some money.  I enjoyed pieces of it, but it was a little slow as a character study until the revelation in the last para...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4800887">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm glad I wasn't on that train; most of the people on it weren't very nice. Graham Greene sure made me FEEL like I was on it, though. I could feel the cold of the windows, see the vague images of people and buildings rushing by. He was a marvelous writer in terms of creating atmosphere.]]></body>
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    <review id="35383556">
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    <body><![CDATA[According to the introduction, Greene considered this an &quot;entertainment,&quot; rather than a serious &quot;novel.&quot;  I don't now quite what he meant by that, unless it's that the ending lets at least some of the characters don't end up dead and/or miserable.  I enjoyed it.]]></body>
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    <review id="861343">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book club pick for April 2009 - which turned into May and June of 2009 as well.  I quite enjoyed it, but found that it required time and focus, which I'm often sadly lacking.  Regardless, a taut story that I enjoyed and am looking forward to discussing with my friends!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the anti-semitism bothered me unbelievably.  the forward denied all this, but I disagree, the book reeks with anti semitism and that reeking interferes with plot and character development.  This is one of my favorite writers and I was very disappointed.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Graham Greene always and this book was no exception. About the intertwining lives of people on the train, from the excitement of the possibility of achieving their dreams to the ultimate disappointment in human predictability. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of Graham Greene's more &quot;commercial&quot; novels and was written to appeal to a broad audience. It has a plot that moves at a good clipping pace and has several intriguing characters whose stories become intertwined. ]]></body>
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