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    <body><![CDATA[If you want a taste of Paul Bowles that's wonderful and disturbing... read his collection of short fiction.  His genius is in taking us away from what we feel is normal--our preconceptions of who were are--to ourselves and to the ones we love.  What happens when human beings are in a totally alien w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20727597">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful, just beautiful.  And scary.  The best in here, to me, are &quot;A Distant Episode,&quot; &quot;The Fourth Day Out from Santa Cruz,&quot; and &quot;Pastor Dowe at Tacate.&quot;  Three of my all-time favorite short stories, and they're all in this one, beautifully bound book.  Amazing.  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13026822">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[stunning. some of these stories really approach perfection. i read many of them about 10 years ago, but i reread every last one this summer and found no fault with any of them. bowles' tendency toward a concomitant sensitivity and roughness is irresistible, and i am very attracted by his ability to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5950994">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Paul Bowles is a very cold creepy writer.  And that's what makes him wonderful.  The unique way he reads 'culture' outside of the European/American existence is both fascinating and superb at the same moment.    An unusual writer in a rather special time in literary history.<br/><br/>I much prefer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6528601">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Delicate Prey&quot; may very well be the most perfect short story I've ever read, whatever the hell that means. I guess that every word not only sounds and feels and looks as if it belongs but that the story as a whole is one I simply cannot forget and will always reference as a model shor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25225343">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel that Bowles is at his best when he pens short stories. He really knows how to condense suspense and tense scenarios into a few pages, usually leaving you unsettled. Wonderful.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not in love with every single story in this collection; in fact, there are a few I think are really mediocre. However, some of them are so damn good it just makes the whole thing worth it. &quot;How Many Midnights?&quot; is one of them. It's one of the strangest scary stories I've ever read -- b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39143538">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Treacherous, often beautiful, and occasionally dissosiative... more later...]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Collected Stories, 1939-1976]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bowles is a master of the short story; of any short story writer he’s the only one that’s stayed with me since reading him. So much so that he was calling out to be read again. ]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 23 12:50:34 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Best stories:<br/>Delicate Prey<br/>Pages from Cold Point <br/>Circular Valley - Similar to <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/500.Jorge_Luis_Borges" title="Jorge Luis Borges">Jorge Luis Borges</a>'Circular Ruin.  It is about a spirit which enters human being because it was curious.  The spirit feels the emotions of being human.<br/><br/>A linguist meets his ironic tragedy.  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43026376">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Collected Stories, 1939-1976]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[okay look i am a sucker for short stories, and even though a lot of people consider bowles one of the premier beat writers, i resisted this collection because i couldn't get into shletering sky and thought he was just kind of boring. i can't say my opinion changed too terribly much, although the del...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32122829">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a couple more stories on my trip this weekend, and this book is pretty good, but hard to read because most of the protagonists are complete assholes!]]></body>
    
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 10 18:38:08 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The &quot;Delicate Prey&quot; and &quot;A Distant Episode&quot; are stories that no person could ever forget. I've never read such brutal, icy violence.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Collected Stories, 1939-1976]]>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 01 00:21:28 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, not one review of this book.  I have read about 20% of the stories in this book.  Beautiful short stories.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Collected Stories, 1939-1976]]>
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 24 08:30:26 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I'd been there, in Tangiers, in that time, on those rooftops, but with MY people. I have good people.]]></body>
    
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  <date_added>Fri Feb 08 16:18:19 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 08 16:19:16 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rad stories from the master.  Stole a title of a story from here for an album.]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Thu May 08 18:57:19 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 08 07:18:58 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully stark and quiet.  Simple, yet provocative. Quite wonderful really...]]></body>
    
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 22 19:28:11 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 20 18:58:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually i've taken a time out on this one to read a bunch of others.]]></body>
    
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