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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting book, a combination of history and a travel writing. I knew next to nothing about Paraguey....what a totally bizarre place, full of the weirdest characters you can imagine, all in a dissolute semi-tropical setting.<br/><br/>They've got sadistic dictators (historical and modern), an ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63878456">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Clearly, this is the work of a failed novelist. The first quarter of the book was fragmented and uninteresting. The rest was better, as stories go, but I never learned to like the patchy and chronologically chaotic nature of the book.<br/><br/>I guess the author failed to write a novel about Parag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42546680">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this before taking my second trip to Paraguay, and found it very engaging. I followed some of Gimlette's steps, and had already met some of the &quot;characters&quot; the first time around, but this time I was able to speak with them about his observations of them. Amusing, and with some well...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56386501">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know close to nothing about Paraguay and would really like to enjoy this book and learn something in the process. It just isn't happening. It is rare that I start a book and don't finish it but this is one of those rarities for me. It is written in a fine fashion but just doesn't grab me. And it r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66526938">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of my all-time favorites. granted, it's because i think it's a funny, extremely-well researched and detailed, sometimes painful and always fascinating account of one of my favorite places on earth--Paraguay. i love Paraguay for being such an enigma and Gimlette's book shows it so well. it's part...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12897068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What to say about this book? It is a strange combination of history and travel journal set in Paraguay. It was never really clear to me why the author wrote this book, and perhaps this is where my confusion about it lies. Although I enjoyed the fact that it was all about Paraguay (how many books are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25454858">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me want to travel to Paraguay because it is a wacky place and no one travels there.  Their history is too similar to a circus, it's hard to imagine that these dictators are actually real political figures and &quot;ran&quot; a country.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoy his writing but this is incorrectly titled. This is a sarcastic look at Paraguayan political history. The 'locals' Gimlette has relied on for his vignettes are either ex-pats, the Paraguayan elite, or people who live in Ascuncion (Paraguay's capital and largest city).<br/><br/>Besides, aft...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73799659">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating travel book that discusses history while the author travels around a country that most people have never heard of, let alone visited.  Can perhaps come accross as a bit negative in its persistant descriptions of Paraguay as a lawless wild west.  Of course that might be just how life real...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15292873">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A rambling, kooky travel report from Paraguay with snippets of history and social commentary.  This book provides an excellent representation of the spirit of Paraguay - a jumble of shady characters, dark historical secrets, travel misadventures, and a joyful people who recognize the value of laught...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16141267">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very interesting history/travelogue about this very screwed up country which seems to always get it wrong.    Hard to believe that a country could survive so many wars, so many dictators and so many Nazis, but this book takes you along for the roller coaster ride which is Paraguay.  A very good bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35234473">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried. This book failed to engage me on any level. I found it rambling, confusing, and cluttered up with repetition. I was unable to get much past 1/4 of the way into it. Perhaps it would have improved, but I'm afraid I'll have to learn about Paraguay some other way.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book for anybody who has travelled. I had a hard time keeping track of all the despots, dictators, and derelicts, but it's an entertaining read and a great take on the travelogue. It's a fascinating and funny look at a country most people know nothing about.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gift from my mother in law, who married a Paraguayan and lived there for many years... my edition comes with margin notes in her hand about the people she knew personally. Looking forward to reading it!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really really enjoyable travelogue/history of Paraguay. Gimlette's inventive approach really captures the flavor of this strange little country. A sympathetic but sharp-eyed telling.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is my favorite book in English that teaches the history of Paraguay.  Part diary, part travel book, it details the history in a way that's easy to read and hard to put down.    ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alternating the story of Eliza Lynch, Empress of Paraguay, and the author's observations of the current day situation in that country was brilliant. Couldn't put it down.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Best book you'll ever read on Paraguay! Weird, wonderful, wacky. It's got old nazis, and exiled Irish lasses, and wars about the silliest things. Great fun.]]></body>
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