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    <body><![CDATA[i will evidently not be getting a nobel prize for literature appreciation]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read most of this book in the bath.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Eberhard Starusch has a number of problems. His teeth hurt. His dentist quotes Seneca constantly. One of his students is trying to come up with a dramatic protest of the Vietnam war. He has invented (or has he?) a number of events surrounding a mythical (or is he?) Field Marshal General who happens ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15154126">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this to be the most difficult of Gunther Grass's books to comprehend.  Unlike his other works, I was never fully able to become immersed in it.  I don't know if the problem was the pastiche of television and German history and one man's cocked-up life, or just my inability to penetrate this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29594231">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I keep re-reading this book and get more from it each time.  Easy to read, almost impossible to fully absorb.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[For some reason I really enjoyed this book...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i started it three times and I couldn't finish it.]]></body>
    
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