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    <body><![CDATA[Graham Greene's <em>Brighton Rock</em> tells the story of a young leader of one of the infamous razor gangs in 1930s Brighton who murders a journalist and then finds that his attempts to avoid any possibility of arrest lead him into ever-increasing complications and violence.  A woman who had befriended the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20852102">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pinky is one of the great literary characters in British literature.  I even own an imported DVD film version of this novel.   It's good!   But back to the book, it really captures that depressed England cold weather thing that is slightly 'under' and in many ways it has a slight ring to &quot;A Clo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6761850">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>&quot;I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.&quot;<br/>Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods- Good and Evil. The woman could tell her...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28728687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is perhaps my favorite Graham Greene novel, and Graham Greene is one of my favorite writers.  One thing I love about this book is its dynamic, multi-layered quality.  One can read this book as a pulp, gangster novel that simply relates the struggle of a small time crook, Pinkie, facing the thre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1202488">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading several absolutely fantastic books by Graham Greene, <em>The Power &amp; The Glory</em>, <em>The Quiet American</em>, <em>The Honorary Consul</em>, this book was a bit of a letdown.  I like books about organized crime, I like mysteries, I like whodunits- but I didn't love this book.<br/><br/>I think a lot of this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22089698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A sequel to A Gun for Sale, a Greene crime entertainment, Brighton Rock succeeds in defying genre. The novel’s protagonist is an 18-year-old gang leader, a killer both naïve and ambitious, aptly named Pinkie. Brighton Rock begins with a memorable first sentence, “Hale knew, before he had been i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77613442">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is unrelentingly grim, with only the faintest rays of hope that you dare not cling to as you read.  With its religious backdrop, it reminds me in tone of James Baldwin's Go Tell it on the Mountain, with the main character, Pinkie, having the same maniacal, religion based rage as Baldwin's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78731687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was torn between 3 and 4 stars. Overall, a good read though the ending chapters were a bit tedious, and I wasn't satisfied with the ending. It's no <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29641.The_End_of_the_Affair" title="The End of the Affair by Graham Greene">The End of the Affair</a>, but it has its moments. (Page 193 is the best page in the book, no contest.)<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63120079">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Johnny Rotten-type yob named Pinkie slaps women and tears up people with razor blades in the cheery seaside playground of Brighton, England. Greene deftly combines touristy blandness with punk rock menace to create his most violent work.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this story years ago. It involves some dangerous, unruly youths and the mean things they do to people, and there's a strange romance that starts in the middle. I'd better not spoil the ending.<br/><br/>After reading this, I bought a student's study guide book for it, and good grief, the amo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72636281">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A real disappointment. Having read and enjoyed 'The Quiet American', I was expecting great things from this. Instead, I experienced the rare sensation of reading an allegedly 'classic' novel and thinking that I could do better. I agree with Logan Graf's comments regarding the flat and unrealistic ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67872476">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A near perfect noir. The Cohen bros. looked at this type of literature for the basis for &quot;Fargo.&quot; Just like that movie, this book takes you inside a world of misfits and fragmented members of a clandestine group: disorganized mobsters. The bad guys are protagonists and the heroine is (unli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36781854">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are some issues I had with this book. Some are the book's fault, some aren't. The book was intentionally dated, and slangy, and hard to get into because the language (1930s Brighton) is so foreign in certain ways. Because it is, after all, another country. I didn't even know that &quot;brighto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25249103">more...</a>]]></body>
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