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    <body><![CDATA[amazing unfinished novel by flaubert--he spent the last 8 years of his life working on it and claimed to have read 1,500 books in researching it.  B. &amp; P. are unhappy copy clerks who acquire an inheritance and retire together, spending the bulk of the novel reading books together.  flaubert calls it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52494611">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Flaubert claimed that he read over 1500-something amount of sources for this novel. There is so much information in this novel that I have no idea what he could be bs-ing and what could be true. Difficult read only because there was no really plot line - just a lot of information]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A charming farce! The old hapless-buffoons type of story, a sort of demanding slapstick. How could everything go so wrong?! At once hilarious and utterly banal. It is the kind of book I would love to read when I am old and softened, resigning myself to happily complacent cynicism.  Although, by that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11607781">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Waah.<br/>*tombe à la renverse*]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is about two hapless Parisian fellows who retire to the country and become omnivorous auto-didacts to the distress of all their neighbors.  It's wry, funny, touching, and very very French.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent criticism of the self-called scientists (at this time, many people would claim they found &quot;cures&quot; for anything)...<br/>Too bad this was the last book of Flaubert and he didn't have time to finish it before his death.]]></body>
    
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