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    <body><![CDATA[Having recently seen an 'Australian Story' documentary about Richard Flanagan and, to my shame, never having heard of him before, I set about to remedy this lacuna in my knowldege of Australian literature and read The Unknown Terrorist as my first work by Richard Flanagan.<br/><br/>Had I not been ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81329928">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Unknown Terrorist is not what you would expect because the jacket blurb did not completely, accurately portray what the novel is about. Yes, Gina Davies, known professionally as “The Doll” or “Krystal,” is an adult entertainer, who finds herself the prime suspect in a terrorism case afte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41273007">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Richard Flanagan's stock-in-trade through four novels (<em>Gould's Book of Fish</em>, <em>Death of a River Guide</em>, <em>Sound of One Hand Clapping</em>) has been intense, often surreal, set pieces. Such disconcerting snapshots drive <em>The Unknown Terrorist</em> to its inevitable conclusion. Flanagan's latest effort turns a jaundi...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45461639">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Luckily Flanagan's a very good writer, or this political polemic might have failed.  Dedicated to David Hicks--the Australian incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay for over five years on the basis of his suspected involvement in terrorist activities--Flanagan's novel explores how an &quot;ordinary&quot; pe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25898332">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an amazing read... A clear-cut, cloying reminder of the paranoid time of terrorism, and the manufacturing of a threat where there was none. Richard Flanagan changed his style for this book, from the amazing Gould's Book of Fish which I also loved. <br/><br/>The Doll, central character, fair...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11686867">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a surprise then that Richard Flanagan's Unknown Terrorist was a terrific read, and an insightful commentary on... the banality of evil.  I got a Flanagan book (someone's book of fish?) as a gift a while ago and never really got through it.  I'll have to try again. The acknowledgments in Unknown...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8023420">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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